After Zoe's article was published in the New York Times, it did not cause widespread response.
One is because Ethiopia is so far away from the United States that Americans don't even know that this place is there.
On top of that, Americans are long gone from starvation.
No matter how good Zoe's writing is, most readers can't empathize.
But Zoe's article was not unnoticed.
Through this article, a number of charities and international aid organizations have finally taken notice of the low-key charity of Friendly Africa and its ability to export food in large quantities.
Friendly Africa is a newly established charity that has only been around for a few years, but it does not accept donations from the general public and rarely organizes volunteers to participate in its activities.
The agency is reluctant to even publicize its unemployment in the media.
It's a wonder in the world of philanthropy.
However, these things are not the concern of Zoe in Africa, because Zoe continues to dig deeper into the dark curtain of friendship Africa.
As the most important media outlet in the United States, the editor-in-chief of the New York Times, with years of experience, felt that this time Zoe had indeed encountered a big news.
What is the concept of seven million tons of grain, which is already one-third of the grain production in the United States in 1984.
The editors of the New York Times' political column were excited by the question of what kind of person had the energy to export so much food, and who would be the buyer, so with the support of the newspaper's editor-in-chief, the New York Times began to send more people to help with Zoe's follow-up reporting.
But for the New York Times, now is not the best time to unveil the truth about the events in Friendship Africa, because there have been several earth-shattering events around the world recently, and readers' interest has not yet been diverted.
Among these major events, the most concerned by the American people is the release of the investigation report on the attack on Guantanamo.
It took Congressionally commissioned investigators nearly a month to put together a report after the incident.
The report will be questioned at a public hearing organized by Congress.
Several important personnel related to the incident, including the commander-in-chief of the Guantanamo Bay, the former US Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the director of the CIA and other important officials of the Reagan Cabinet will be questioned in front of the media.
So until the Guantanamo investigation report is fully published, the New York Times intends to postpone Zoe's column for a while.
In addition to focusing on the Guantanamo report, the main focus of recent issues of the New York Times is the meeting between the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union in Geneva.
The main occasion of the meeting was for the leaders of the two countries to participate in a regional and international security conference in Switzerland.
Although the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union attended the meeting, their meeting was made improvised, so the two sides did not achieve much, except for the signing of a letter of intent to limit the arms race.
But Gorbachev's moderation was a radical departure from the aggressive attitude of previous Soviet leaders, which made many people interested in him.
Although the meeting between the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union was significant, Americans were more concerned about the loss of Guantanamo than Europeans who lived in the shadow of the Soviet Union's steel torrent.
After this incident, the media and some military scholars have been criticizing the combat effectiveness of the US team, and they have questioned why the world's most powerful armed forces, supported by hundreds of billions of military appropriations from Congress every year, are vulnerable and defenseless in the face of the Colombian motley army.
Answering that question on the first day of the hearing, former Defense Minister Weinberg said the entire incident had been carefully planned, with six fully laden 10,000-ton tankers rushing into the narrow main channel of Guantanamo Bay before the attackers acted.
A large explosion followed, which ignited the oil floating in the sea.
The harmful substances contained in the combustion of oil prevented the U.S. military's air power from working properly, and the navy was unable to enter Guantanamo Bay to support the fighting because the shipping lanes were blocked.
The defense minister admitted that he was at fault in handling the Guantanamo attack.
However, Weinberg turned the finger at the CIA, the largest intelligence agency in the United States.
"Distinguished members and gentlemen of Congress, I would like to emphasize that the cause of the whole incident was a prisoner named Ivankov, and the attackers spent so much money to rescue Ivankov from the Guantanamo base, given the sensitivity of Ivankov's identity, please forgive me for not giving too much information about him.
I would like to remind the legislators, however, that Ivankov had been sent to the Guantánamo base by the CIA a month before the attack, and that just a week before the attack, CIA agents from abroad to Colombia had discovered anomalies with the local armed groups and had known that they were planning a crazy plan against the Guantánamo Bay.
It's a pity that these precious pieces of information were thrown into the wastepaper basket by the deputy director of the CIA, and it wasn't until after the incident that we learned that there was such a piece of information that once existed, so I don't think the Department of Defense should take greater responsibility in this incident, but the work attitude of senior CIA officials is worrying: "Although Weinberg, the outgoing secretary of defense, has become the scapegoat of President Reagan, he has no worries about being unofficial.
Weinberg now only wants to bring the CIA closer to the political maelstrom of Guantanamo, rather than leaving the Defense Department alone to bear the criticism from the American media and the people in the immediate aftermath of the incident.
"Mr.
Weinberg, you mentioned that the attackers used six 10,000-ton ships at the beginning of the operation, and one of the freighters was deliberately stranded in Guantanamo Bay, can you tell us about the origin of these ships?"
a member of the Commission of Inquiry was the first to ask after Weinberg's remarks, wondering how the attackers had organized this massive military operation.
"Yes Mr.
Senator, according to the investigation of the Ministry of Defense, the ship that attacked the attack was registered in Panama, and the owner of the ship was the European shipping company Mediterranean Shipping, which bought the six Suez-class ships from a Greek shipping company on the verge of bankruptcy half a year before the attack.
The second attack, however, came a week before the ships were confronted by pirates while sailing in the waters of West Africa.
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