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The Next Time The World Is Going Downhill: America And The 1983 Ethiopian Famine, Bethany Sharpe May 2015

The Next Time The World Is Going Downhill: America And The 1983 Ethiopian Famine, Bethany Sharpe

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

In 1983, a massive famine struck Ethiopia. Bred by a complex array of factors, thousands of men, women, and children experienced the painful effects of this humanitarian disaster as bodies weakened and widespread death took place. Throughout the famine, an unlikely partnership took place between the Communist leader Chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam and the staunchly anti-Communist White House.[1] The partnership allowed each nation to pursue strategic foreign policy goals; the United States sought to undermine the socialist PMGSE through humanitarian aid while Mengistu attempted to salvage his government’s international reputation. Soon, global attention swirled around the issue and unlikely …


The Nineteenth-Century Criminal Jury: Kentucky In The Context Of The American Experience, Robert M. Ireland Apr 1983

The Nineteenth-Century Criminal Jury: Kentucky In The Context Of The American Experience, Robert M. Ireland

The Kentucky Review

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Congress Elects A President: Henry Clay And The Campaign Of 1824, Albert D. Kirwan Jan 1983

Congress Elects A President: Henry Clay And The Campaign Of 1824, Albert D. Kirwan

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.