It was the first delegation to visit Ethiopia since the overthrow of the Haile Selassie government. The famine had been going on for almost 2 years. devastating and killing tens of thousands of Ethiopian men. women. and children. but it had not yet become a matter of great international notoriety. We had occasion to visit a refugee camp. and we saw Ethiopian men and women who had walked for miles from their villages. and then. if they were fortunate enough to arrive when there was the delivery of food. walk back those miles again with a sack of meal on their backs. We saw the children who were suffering from forms of malnutrition. In addition to seeing the deprivation and the death and destruction. we had occasion to meet with the head of the government.