Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the "security of the Gardez- Khost highway has now been ensured" and "traffic is now normal." Two days later, however, Radio Kabul said that "fierce" and "heavy" fighting was raging on the highway. On New Year's Eve, the station reported victory again and said that bunting-clad relief trucks were rolling into Khost...
...amendment, introduced by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) at Kennedy's request, prevents the Federal Communications Commission from granting Murdoch any relief or review of the rule barring common ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city...
...justice -- or bad law? That was the question last week after an Indian district court judge ordered the Union Carbide Corp. to pay $270 million in interim relief to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak. The disaster claimed 2,866 lives and left some 40,000 people seriously injured. In a 17- page ruling, Judge M.W. Deo argued that while "diverse loud voices" hold up a settlement, the "poor gas victims" continue to suffer. The courts, he said, have "inherent powers" to administer justice...
...Mengistu's critics, all such defenses are simply evidence that those who want to provide aid become prisoners of the system: anyone who faults the dictator risks being expelled, like France's Doctors Without Borders. "We have to be discreet," concedes Frank Conlon, Africa program director for Lutheran World Relief. "In relief situations, you often don't have a lot of time for dialogue." Says Laura Kullenberg, director of the Horn of Africa program run by Oxfam America: "This is a life-and-death situation, and our choices are limited. Our mission is to make sure food gets to people...
...officials estimate that there is now enough food committed to Ethiopia to last until spring, but whether it gets out of the warehouses and to the hungry depends heavily on the available transportation. Relief officials estimate they need nearly 300 additional trucks to haul food from distribution centers to rural areas, but the Mengistu regime has thus far provided only 100. So welfare officials are falling back on a vastly expensive airlift. It is notable that the Soviets, who sell Mengistu most of his weapons, have sent very little in the way of either food or transport...