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April 1984 Issue
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This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Shedding Light on Lebanon
    John Keegan
  • Coercion in the Classroom Won't Work
    Benjamin Spock
  • The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows
    Wesley Mcnair
  • Perfectionism
    Guy Billout
  • Running Away
    William Trevor
  • Bowing to the Empress
    Mary Oliver

Africa: Drought of the Century

Conditions are worse now than they were during the famine of 1973-1974, in which half a million Africans starved to death

By Jack Shepherd
April 1984 Issue
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