European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday september 21, 1985 Usa for Africa vice president Harry Moront hold Grain bag from an Airlift be Ethiopia i Jun. Despite . Aid ties with Ethiopia remain strained by Clifford d. May new York times nearly 10 months after the unite states undertook a major famine Rede Letort in Ethiopia relations Between the two governments remain strained and antagonistic with few signs of approaching improvement according to Western diplomats and ethiopian officials. But the average ethiopian today appears to feel friendlier toward America and americans than Evet Belore at least partly As a response to . Assistance. The severity of the ethiopian famine first became widely publicized in the West last november. Since then the United states has become Ethiopia s largest supplier of emergency Aid. More than a third of the Relief food entering Ethiopia originates in the United states As part of a program costing More than $250 million. American contributions of any kind Are rarely acknowledged by the government however White even Small donations from Trie soviet Union and other communist countries Are Given prominence by ethiopian officials and in the government controlled press. An american Diplomat recently attended a Shoah ceremony marking the Start of a Washington financed technical training program Tor ethiopians. We wish to thank those  an ethiopian official said the Diplomat said at no Point could he bring himself to even mention America by  for i Taw months this year critical references to the United states virtually disappeared from the press. Recently such language has become common again. For instance an article in the ethiopian Herald an English language newspaper accused the Central intelligence Agency of establishing a new hit us Lor Africa and went on to charge that reactionary quarters in the West were trying to sabotage the Relief Effort in Ethiopia. At the same time the ethiopian press routinely attributes Adverse Publ Sty about Ethiopia in the Western press to the Reagan administration s familiar anti ethiopian Campaign of  Western journalists Are now being granted visas valid for Only 10 Days. Beyond this there has been what some european and other diplomats View As Active harassment of the . Embassy. Some ethiopian employees of the embassy have been detained without charges. This Spring a . Marine guard was attacked end beaten late at night on the grounds of an Addis Ababa hotel. It was definitely a professional Job an american familiar with the Case said. These weren t thugs or muggers Addis Ababa is generally considered one of Africa s sales cities. The . Agency for International development office Here which oversees a program now estimated at More than $262 million Tor fiscal year 1985, is stalled by Only live people a limit set by the ethiopian government who until last month lived and worked in Addis Ababa on visas that expired and had to be renewed every 30 Days. Yot aft Myrtean conomy. Agriculture specialists medical workers and others report that they have generally Good professional and personal relations with their ethiopian colleagues in ministries and commissions. According to some diplomats and ethiopians a struggle is under Way in the ruling Hierarchy Between a moderate faction composed mainly of military people and a Radical faction composed mainly of civilians with close ties to the soviet Union. Others dispute that. There s no struggle anymore an embassy political analyst said. The ideological types have already won hands  the attitude of la Ordinary ethiopian contrasts markedly with the tensions on the official level. 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