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More important, there is wide agreement by specialists that Ethiopia's agricultural plight could be reversed only by a program of sustained, substantial and intense long-term assistance. However much aid is shipped into the country during the next year, more will be needed to help Ethiopia, and its neighbors, return to productive harvests. Many officials assume that the present torrent of sympathy will subside quickly as memories of the TV footage begin to fade and world attention turns to other matters. The results would be grim...
...projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual audience is not that far removed from the madhouse. As the inmates bang at the bars confining them, they practically touch us. Their wretched plight is ours; we are all part of one big batty family...
...Bather confronts the social and personal isolation of her sex; other authors would resort to hell, assassinations and plagues to illustrate such existential loneliness. Her plight, both sartorial and emotional, are relieved by a simple, silent act of kindness that shows how much can be communicated when nothing can be said...
...director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the intention of destabilizing Ethiopia's Marxist government. M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development, denied such charges and instead blamed the Soviet Union for its "callous indifference" to the plight of its African ally. The Soviets, said McPherson, have provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion worth of weapons but only 10,000 tons of rice-a food that Ethiopians normally...
Harris' plight is typical of the pain that rising prices still inflict on many shoppers despite a string of glowing Government reports showing that inflation has been tamed. Last week the Labor Department provided more relatively good numbers. It said the C.P.I. rose at a 4.2% rate during the twelve months that ended in September. In another encouraging move for the U.S. economy, many major U.S. banks lowered their prime lending rates, which had ranged...