Word: mariam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after two short years, do hundreds of thousands, even millions, again face starvation? While Western experts primarily blame the lack of rain, many place much of the responsibility on the shoulders of Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose rigid and secretive Communist regime has done little to avert another tragedy. Not only does the Addis Ababa government seem more concerned with putting down various insurgencies than with feeding the hungry, but it has also continued policies that seem designed to aggravate rather than resolve problems of poverty...
...raising money often proved the easy part. In Ethiopia, the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam, which is battling guerrillas in the country's northern provinces, promptly turned aid into a political tool. Government troops seized a food-laden ship to keep supplies from reaching the rebel-held north, where the famine was most severe. In Sudan, guerrillas battling Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's regime shot down a passenger plane last August, killing 60 people, and threatened to shoot any relief aircraft that tried to land in the south, where some 2 million Sudanese needed food...
...proud to have been associated with TIME's journalistic excellence, which has included exclusive interviews with Ronald Reagan, Corazon Aquino and Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam. Our coverage ranged from the protracted agony of South Africa to the outpouring of People Power in the Philippines, the tragedy of Challenger to the triumph of Voyager, the classical genius of Pianist Vladimir Horowitz to the postmodern wit of Pop Singer David Byrne. And we continue to receive accolades from our peers. In 1986 TIME won the National Magazine Award for excellence in design, and the Overseas Press Club singled out TIME photographers...
...three years as Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, Goshu Wolde dutifully defended the policies of Marxist Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. But last week his message was different. Meeting with reporters at the United Nations in New York, Wolde said he was resigning his post and lashed out at his nation's pro-Soviet regime. Said he: "I have recently watched, with helplessness, as my country slipped further and further into authoritarianism and absolute dictatorship, with the inevitable consequences of intolerance and repression...
...letter writing effort was joined by a panel of speakers who addressed the rally at Widener. The first to speak was Mariam Ozernoy, a Russian emigree, who spoke on herrecent release from the Soviet Union. Her speechwas followed by a talk on Christian dissent in theUSSR by Nikita Moravsky, former attache to theAmerican Embassy in Moscow...