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Across Africa's broad chest, from Senegal to Ethiopia, the worst drought of the century continues to cut a 4,000-mile swath of devastation. After six years of light rainfall, nearly one-third of the 51 million people who live in this band from the Atlantic to the Red Sea are threatened by starvation. Not even a good rainfall this season can end the tragedy, so wasted is the land and so slight the prospect of a bountiful harvest. Worst hit are Ethiopia and the six nations of the arid Sahel (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger...
...years before, Harvard has traditionally fielded a strong baseball club. In addition to taking the last three Eastern titles, the Crimson batmen have captured the pennant three more times in the last fifteen years. But in the twenty years before this, the Harvard baseball team underwent a title drought even though it was in the process of compiling the best composite record of any team in the league...
...American, British and Israeli experts, the 42,000-man army is a modern outfit with-at least for Ethiopia-modern views. Its educated officers have long been unhappy about the appalling gap between rich and poor and the inefficiencies and inequities of a feudal agricultural system. Last year drought, landlord indifference and government mismanagement combined to produce a famine that left at least 50,000 dead...
Head varsity fencing coach Edo Marion ended a 22-year drought against Columbia yesterday afternoon at the IAB when his charges scored a last bout, 14-13 upset victory over the defending champion Lions...
After finishing the tank, the expedition returned to Bamako, hoping to pick up government transportation to villages in northern Mali. "Up there is where the drought has really been worst," Wiedemann said. "They are the ones who really needed the tanks. The Dogons' problem isn't a lack of water--it's just that they have to go good distances...