Organisations (rAO) nas with $15.0m of emegency food aid for the content. No figure are available for Eastern Bloc relief although it is known that the USSR has sent 300 trucks, 16 planes and 24 helicopters to assist food distribution.
When the pro-US Emperor Haile Selassie ruled Ethiopia a decade ago, he received more aid from the US in six months than the new regime has •orantes over the last three vears Prior to the famine, the US allocated less than one per cent of its food ald to Ethiopia. The new allocations are too little too late. has estimated that even if all Ethiopia's food needs were met tomorrow, two in ten of those gripped by the famine would still die.
The Reagan administration is not the only government at Labour shadow minister Robin Cook pointed out in the House of Commons: 'The amount of grain so far released by the EEC is barely one per cent of surplus stocks and less than one tenth of the amount that the EEC is currently converting into animal foodstuffs for Europe.
Even this meagre response was only prompted by pressure from the public ana voluntary rene Urgalisaacculale Ethiopia to Ethiopia.' Doubts have been been had aid withheld -denied in Addis Ababa.
fault. As disrupted for leading Republican only go to things The reluctance to help Ethiopia is As Newsweek recently put it: "The Reagan administration was reluctant at first to send food to the Marxist regimes in Mozambique and • The US representative to the UN, Jean Kirkpatrick, has constantly sniped at the motives of the Ethiopian government in seeking aid expressed as to whether western aid gets to those in most need, with critics suggesting that rebel-occupied areas of Ethiopia have - a charge strongly Kirkpatrick recently told the UN general assembly that nothing would be more 'reprehensible (than) to find relief for some regions hampered and reasons'.
Perhaps she ought to have had a quiet word with Senator Jessie Helms, a foreign affairs who has suggested that:
Food policy will be our main foreign Slave in the tutire Reagan's 575m aid programme for Africa next vear stipulates that the monev should governments that reject socialism. Over half this year's allocation for the sub-Saharan region went
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