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Amid the squalor of Ethiopia's rapidly rilling refugee camps, little help appeared to be in sight last week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...
...Boston headquarters at the rate of about $1 million a month, and World Vision in California has raised $2.5 million in the past six weeks, including one check for $250,000. Canada announced a further government contribution of $5.6 million. The European Economic Community will send 55,000 metric tons of grain this month...
Relief agencies tried to rush food to the starving country by diverting grain shipments from other destinations. The World Food Program rerouted a freighter carrying 28,000 metric tons of grain to an Ethiopian port. Even so, the ship will not arrive until Dec. 12. Another vessel, carrying 10,000 metric tons of U.S. Government-donated grain to India, changed course and headed for the beleaguered country. In all, 80,000 metric tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will...
...Reagan Administration has promised 195,000 metric tons of food to Ethiopia, but not all of it has been shipped. In contrast, the Soviet Union has given the country little more than 300 trucks, 24 helicopters and 12 planes to deliver the West's food and supplies. The Soviets have donated only 20,000 metric tons of rice. Says a British official: "They came in late and probably decided it wasn't worth their while to catch...
...amount of fish they are allowed to take from American territorial waters. Such sanctions would have little impact on countries that do their fishing close to home. But they would have an enormous effect on the fish-eating Japanese, who last year alone accounted for 971,000 metric tons, or nearly 75% of the 1.3 million metric tons of fish taken from U.S. waters by foreign fishermen...