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AROUND THE WORLD; Ethiopia Says Relief Aide Fled to U.S. With Funds

Ethiopia says its top relief official in the 1984-85 famine has fled to the United States with hundreds of thousands of dollars in famine aid money.

The accusation against the official, Dawit Wolde Giorgis, who headed the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, was made in a lengthy statement by Ethiopia's Marxist Government.

The statement was broadcast Tuesday night in the Amharic-language domestic service of the state-owned radio and monitored in neighboring Kenya. An English-language version was broadcast today.

It was the first official acknowledgement that the aide, a bachelor in his mid-40's, had fled. He was last heard of on Oct. 25, when he left Ethiopia on a trip to Europe and the United States to solicit famine relief funds. ---- WASHINGTON, May 7 - The State Department today confirmed that Dawit Wolde Giorgis, a former Ethiopian relief official, was in the United States. Asked about reports of the Ethiopian charges, Charles E. Redman, the deputy State Department spokesman, said American monitoring of relief aid to Ethiopia showed ''no indication that any U.S. assistance has been diverted.''

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/08/worl ... funds.html