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Live Aid Famine Cash Bought Guns, Not Grain
Mar 3rd 2010 – 5:12PM
AP
LONDON (March 3) -- Amid an ongoing global effort to raise funds for earthquake-stricken Haiti, new allegations surfaced today that millions of dollars raised by the 1985 Live Aid concerts for the victims of the Ethiopian famine were actually spent on weapons. The charges offer a timely reminder that collecting money is...
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