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Week of Nov. 12, 1984
Aid workers in Ethiopia and other African famine-stricken nations celebrate the arrival of tons of food contributed after NBC aired footage of emaciated victims. Notes a bitter UNICEF worker: "It seems you have to have thousands of corpses before people will sit up and take notice."