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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1985
Hunger fight U.S. may join by linking hands
United Press International
NEW YORK — Comedian Bill Cosby, country singer Kenny Rogers and baseball player Pete Rose yesterday announced plans to link a human chain across the nation to raise up to $100 million to fight hunger in America.
The event is the latest and most ambitious of the recent social action fund-raising performances by entertainers that included the Live Aid and FarmAid concerts and the pop song "We Are The World."
Cosby and the two others announced
the Memorial Day weekend event
— called Hands Across America — speaking on videotape at a Manhattan news conference.
"Millions of Americans go hungry every day. Now it's time for
Americans to help Americans," Cosbv said.
"Hands Across America is millions of Americans joining hands from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from coast to coast raising money for hungry and homeless Americans," said Rose. "Please help us. Be there."
Much of the cost of staging the event — an estimated $18.8 million — is being donated by Coca-Cola Inc., but other corporate sponsors are expected, said Ken Kraken, president of USA for Africa, the foundation formed to administer proceeds of "We Are The World."
The anticipated $50 million to $100
million to be raised for American hunger relief will come from the fee people must pay to participate in the event.
A minimum $10 donation is required to be a link in the chain.
Cities chosen for the zigzag chain to go through include New York; Newark, N.J.; Philadelphia; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore; Washington; Cincinnati; Gary, Ind; Washington; Cincinnati; Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.; Dallas, Albuquerque, N.M.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Los Angeles.
J. Larry Brown of the Harvard School of Public Health, which this year released a physicians' study on hunger and homelessness in America, also appeared at the news conference to outline the problem and laud the event.
Famine in Ethiopia still critical
United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A year after TV viewers around the world caught a glimpse of starving Africans, the government said yesterday that Ethiopia's famine remained critical with about 6 million people facing starvation in 1986.
The government's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission now predicts that Ethiopia will suffer a
On Oct. 23, 1984, when the first television reports of the tragedy evoked images of concentration camp-style conditions — skeleton-like huddles in groups, people hiding for food — more than 7 million people were on the brink of starvation the Ethiopian government said.
food shortfall of about 900,000 tons next year, affecting more than 5.8 million people.
Mohammed Amin, the award-winning Kenyan-born camaman who took the first TV pictures of the starving, said at the time that "nothing in the world — no battle or disaster — could prepare me for the suffering and tragedy I have seen since I flew into Ethiopia recently."
The pictures of emaciated children and mass graves last year were followed by a huge international relief effort by governments, aid agencies' and even pop music stars.
But despite millions of dollars raised and recent rainfall in parts of Ethiopia, the situation remains grim, the government said.
mission said seven of 14 administrative regions reported rain failures of 80 to 100 percent. In other areas, crops have been ravaged by pests because of pesticide shortages.
The Relief and Rehabilitation Com-
Hailstorms and delays in planting which were due to a lack of seeds and late rains also have contributed to crop damage, the commission said.
The situation is also aggravated by a guerrilla war in the nation's northern provinces that has hindered the transport of food into the affected areas.
For next year, the commission said, Ethiopia will require 100,000 metric tons of food aid every month. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said earlier this month that food distribution had improved during the past months.
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