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David Korn was born in Wichita Falls, Texas.
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The United States and its Western allies donate millions of dollars in emergency aid to alleviate the effects of the Ethiopian famine. Despite this aid, the Marxist regime in Ethiopia continues resolutely hostile to the United States and a firm friend to the Soviet Union whose emergency aid has been minimal. Moreover, the regime is pressing ahead vigorously with its socialist programs of population resettlement, agricultural collectivization, and state control of the economy, even though these programs may aggravate the effects of the famine. This important book, based on extensive first hand knowledge, traces events in Ethiopia over the last decade or so and offers much new information. Korn shows how Ethiopia switched from being an ally of the United States to an ally of the Soviet Union and how various efforts by the United States to regain Ethiopia’s friendship have failed. He discusses the coming to power of Colonel Mengistu, his ruthless methods, and his utter commitment to Marxism-Leninism. Korn explores the effects of Marxist rule and the famine on the Ethiopian people. He looks at the civil war in Eritrea and Tigray and at other threats to the regime from both inside and outside the country and explores how the situation is likely to develop in the immediate future.
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This book aims to make available to the lay public a better understanding of one of the great tragedies of our times: the global crisis of internal displacement. As it draws to its close, the millennium finds some 25 million persons worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes by civil wars, internal strife, or gross violations of human rights--but still in their own countries. Were they to cross a border, many would have claim to protection and assistance by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. But the internally displaced have no such rights and no address to which to turn. Based on Roberta Cohen's and Francis M. Deng's groundbreaking work, Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings, 1998), this book offers, in summary and less technical form, the essential findings of that in-depth study: who and where the internally displaced are and what is being done for them, and how the international community can better organize itself to deal with a challenge that not only is humanitarian but also poses a threat to the security, stability, and economic well being of nations in all continents. And, Exodus within Borders offers one other important dimension. Through the powerful medium of photography, it shows just what it can mean to be driven from one's home with little but the clothes on one's back and no sure place of refuge. David A. Korn is a former United States foreign service officer and ambassador and author of books on the Middle East, Africa, and human rights. Several photographs were provided by the renowned Paris-based Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Includes 33 photographs
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David Korn was born in Wichita Falls, Texas.
He attended Joplin Junior College and the University of Missouri.
He was appointed to his ambassadorship position on October 16, 1986, and left that post on April 4, 1988. He holds degrees from the Institut d"Etudes Politiques in Paris, France, 1953–1956, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1957. Korn is fluent in French, Hebrew, and Arabic.
He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953.
Korn joined the Foreign Service in September 1957 after serving briefly as a desk officer for North Africa at the International Administration, the predecessor of United States Agency for International Development. Later that year he was assigned as political officer to the United States. Embassy in Paris, France. He returned to Washington District of Columbia in 1959 to serve in the State Department"s Executive Secretariat.
From 1961 to 1963, Korn was political officer at the United States. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. From there, in 1963 to 1964, he took Arabic language training at the American consulate in Tangier, Morocco.
And from 1964 to 1965, he served as Chargé d"Affaires and political officer at the United States. Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
He then returned as desk officer for Arabian peninsula affairs from 1965 to 1967. Korn was then assigned to the United States. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967, where he took Hebrew language training before serving as political officer from 1968 to 1969 and chief of the political section from January 1970 to August 1971. Then from 1971 to 1972, he took mid-career training at Princeton University and then returned to the Department as Office Director for northern Arab affairs from 1972 to 1975.
Korn was appointed American consul general in Calcutta, India, from 1975 to 1977.
From 1982 to 1985, Korn was Chargé d"Affaires and ad interim at the United States. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 1985–1986 was a fellow at Chatham House in London, England. His father was Thomas Adolph Korn and his mother was Iris Dobson.
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He served as a member of the policy planning staff in 1978. Became officer director for Arab-Israeli affairs from 1978 to 1981. And was assigned to the Bureau of African Affairs, from 1981 to 1982.