The World - News from Aug. 10, 1989

The United States began sending planes and military rescue teams to Ethiopia to help search for missing Rep. Mickey Leland (D-Tex.) and 13 others and said Ethiopia has agreed to a search flight over the area by a U-2 spy plane. Leland, 44, chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger, eight other Americans and five Ethiopians have been missing since Monday on a flight from Addis Ababa to a refugee camp near the Ethiopian border with Sudan. U.S. officials praised Ethiopia’s search efforts and said the United States will send two C-130s with the ability to stay in the air for many hours, as well as a C-141 with medical evacuation equipment.