Word: berbera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been the Kremlin's closest ally in northeast Africa. But angered by Moscow's growing involvement with Ethiopia, a traditional Somali enemy, Barre kicked the Russians out of his country last November and closed down the big Soviet military base on the Red Sea at Berbera...
...been predicted, the Somalis were throwing the Russians out. They denounced their three-year-old friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, and they asked the Russians to vacate the Soviet-built naval base at the Somali port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. Soviet military and civilian advisers were ordered to get out of the country on a week's notice, leaving just seven U.S.S.R. embassy employees in Mogadishu-the exact size of the Somali embassy staff in Moscow. Simultaneously, the Somalis broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...about 15 years, the Soviet Union trained and armed the 22,000-man Somali army and helped make it one of the best fighting forces in Africa; it also built a missile and naval base at the Somali port of Berbera, which is strategically located near the approaches to the Red Sea. But three years ago, following the overthrow of Haile Selassie, the Soviets began to concentrate on improving their relations with the new junta in Ethiopia-and thus began to alienate the Somalis. The Cubans, who used to back the Eritreans, followed the Russians to Addis Ababa, and today...
...paid by Saudia Arabia, which for years has been trying to woo predominantly Muslim Somalia out of the Soviet orbit. TIME has learned that in exchange for a firm Western pledge of armaments, the Somalis are prepared to order the Russians to vacate their huge missile base at Berbera and withdraw their 2,500 military technicians...
SOMALIA. Pop. 3.17 million. Chief exports: livestock and bananas. Religion: Islam. Military regime closely allied with Moscow since 1969. The well-equipped military includes 25,000 men and one of the largest tank forces in sub-Saharan Africa. The Soviets have installed a large, tightly guarded missile base at Berbera to service missile warships. Neighboring nations fear that land-based missiles might be brought in as well; that could not only threaten the nearby strait of Babel Mandeb, but also the entrance to the Persian Gulf at Hormuz 1,300 miles away...