In Ethiopia, a warning that things may get worse before they get better. A country on the brink

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 8, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia

A year ago, the president of Ethiopia had his office in a cave. Today, he sits in a downtown building that resembles a suburban office complex and tries to create democracy out of an empire on the verge of falling apart. "There is total economic and social dislocation," said President Meles Zenawi. "Things will probably get worse before they get better."

Meles, 37, spoke in flawless English, the result of his education at the fashionable Wingate School in Addis Ababa. But he hails from Tigray province in northern Ethiopia, and like many ...

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