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Getting the food to the hungry is made more difficult by inadequate port facilities, poor or nonexistent roads and insufficient planes and trucks to transport food to rural areas. But the biggest block in the pipeline is civil strife. The government is battling 23 rebel groups and factions in every part of the country. The two strongest insurgent armies are in Tigre and Eritrea, the provinces hit hardest by the drought. Eritrea has been in rebellion against the government ever since it was annexed by Ethiopia in 1962, and a guerrilla movement began building in Tigre...
...quarter rations. Relief workers are racing to distribute food. Rebel attacks and logistical problems have cost valuable time, however, and in the past few days the pace has quickened. Last week three transport planes left Europe for Ethiopia and are now airlifting food from Asmara, near the Red Sea port of Assab, to Mekele. The European Community, which organized the operation, eventually hopes to deploy ten planes. "The airlift is vital," says Priestley. "But 700,000 people in Tigre need food immediately, and the aircraft must be backed up by trucks. If we don't start widespread distribution, there will...
Recorded in September 1985 by the Bedford-based Gospel Workshop for Children, a nonprofit evangelical Christian "music ministry" organized by Sharon's mother Jan, Dear Mr. Jesus first aired in 1986 on a Port Arthur, Texas, radio station. Word of mouth and a 4 1/2-minute music video starring Sharon and her doll Bessie slowly spread the song on stations in Florida and Texas, where it attracted a response from hundreds of overwrought callers eager to discuss their own experiences with child abuse...
Word had gone out that the memorial service for the 17 victims of a savage election-day attack on a schoolhouse in downtown Port-au-Prince was set for 9 a.m. But when the hour tolled, the Basilica Notre Dame was empty, and churchworkers began locking up the faded pink-and-yellow cathedral. The attendants nervously explained that the service had been canceled "because of rain." On the steps of the cathedral, a 79-year-old man squinted at the light drizzle. "People are too scared," he whispered. "It is still too soon...
...hundred missiles will be given to Iran in a secret arms deal to win access to a warm-water port. The Iranians, the Soviet reasoning goes, will be so greedy for missiles, that they won't quibble over the removal of the nuclear warheads. The Soviets see this as a potential PR master-stroke that willprove once and for all that communists are smarter than we are--after all, we provided the Iranians with weapons that really worked...