European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. December 5,1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 or 6, puts bite on Santa for 2 Afeefh the mail has 5ta? Plain to san la s workshop. Children a some of he most interesting Loys things they want Santa to put under their tree bul misty Rosenau 6, of Gorp Pingon Germany asked for among Oiler nines two front u. Roede of Furth Germany would like some Drums since his boxes arc breaking Down from playing on them. Cheryl a Carper of Deshof Germany warns to know Juff Tala Only comes Al night los also concerned about a gaits safety. She tells Santa pop Tot careful when you Fly a have been crashing Lale Oiher children san la Are Encarna Ufen Ehnen cobol who have writ in Tow a Clib Hon family Gregory Gifu son Mirny hop pm inn be urns y Phillip Date in Kcal a Raymond Kitty a anew a Irrigon Jam a Arnubi Philip Hopper ont Amy Kuirt a flirt of lither minium jew ruler him Ion Dank John Jinn Shannon Rogora Joanne Sodon Kai Anmann Andrea a Merj a Cost Oxbow s Andrew canola Ash Fly How Doh adv by Dix oct Micheal Sluis Jon of it Jat Hal Pawn 11 Thau cedi Ian a turn a no in Watt in n mom o a Dib if Sanli Bull a do nil l so no coup nol Wila tuck cd 30 flies 2nd Relief Mission into Ethiopia Addis Ababa up a second Hercules plane slated airlifting emergency food to Ethiopia s Zigray province thursday in what Relief officials Hope will become a major air Bridge Between inc country s ports and the drought stricken Interior. On its Maiden flight thursday the a a Cults c 130 hew 220 mites from the red sea port of assay to the food distribution Center of Mckelley in Zigray province. The transporter financed by the european eco nomic Community dec and the ethiopian Catho Lic secretariat pcs is the second Hercules to air lift Tood to War and drought wracked provinces in the North. The inner National committee of the red Cross i arc is already airlifting emergency supplies from Massaway another red sea port to or Ilca s provincial capital of Asmara and to Zigray. The Hercules cd 30s arc capable of transporting up to 21 tons of supplies at a Lime and Are expected to do two to three trips a Day. In addition two soviet Antonov Ira Sporl aircraft have been flying 80 tons of supplies a Day to the North for the past to weeks. Mcnno Haft or head of the dec delegation in Addis Ababa said thursday the Community would Send an other Hercules due to arrive on dec. 9. He said the dec budgeted $3 million for the opera Tion Oul of a total of s12 million a set aside for famine Relief in Ethiopia. He said the food needs of the Remote Northern provinces of Zigray and or circa represented about Hal of the country s total requirements of Over one million tons for i9bs. During 1988, there will be 3.6 million people in need in Etc iwo regions out of 6,5 million affected by food shortages in the country As a whole he said. Kidane Mariam of the pcs said he hoped donors would provide further planes Foi the Airlift. There is no time 10 lose the lives of too Many affected people Are Al stake he said. Relief officials in Ethiopia said an air Bridge oper ated by six Large transport planes and involving 13,000 tons of food a month would be needed to avoid starvation in the nest Tiree months. They also said an additional 200 10 300 trucks were required to move food by Road to the Northern prov inces. Several officials said in the past few weeks the cur rent crisis could become As dramatic As the 1984-8 famine in which up 10 one million died. And they warned that the donors were again
