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It was natural to hope, if not to expect, that the West's Herculean effort to save the lives of millions of starving Ethiopians would be appreciated and would cause the Ethiopian government to take a second look at its international position. Surely, some in Washington reasoned, the Ethiopian regime would see that, when it came to basic matters of survival, the West had a lot more to offer than the East. Moscow could give arms to prosecute endless civil wars, but it could provide neither food in time of emergency nor an economic model that would assure Ethiopia the ability to produce enough food to feed its burgeoning population even in normal times. (it) |
