The World - News from April 20, 1988
Ethiopia said that U.N. aid workers can resume famine relief operations in the war-torn north but that more than 50 other Western workers remain barred from the region. The reversal, which affects only four relief workers, came after a U.N. envoy met with Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam to discuss the April 6 expulsions, which have crippled a massive emergency program to feed 3.2 million starving people in Eritrea and Tigre provinces.
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