Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ababa, were again firing their guns. This time they battled not government forces but thousands of civilians who had taken to the streets to protest the sudden ascendancy of Meles' maverick band. It was a curious reaction, considering that Meles' troops had deposed Mengistu Haile Mariam, the onetime lieutenant colonel who had ruled Ethiopia for 14 bloody years. The demonstrations and crackdowns left at least 10 dead and an additional 400 wounded...
...latest effort to mediate the conflict was sparked by what appears to be the imminent collapse of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime. Mengistu, whose 14-year reign of terror rivals that of Saddam Hussein, has been written off before, only to survive. But since late April, when Tigrean- led Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front guerrillas pushed as far south as Ambo, putting almost all of northern Ethiopia in rebel hands, the consensus has been that Mengistu is a goner. "It brought home that the 30- year seesaw of rebel victories and then government victories had irretrievably dipped...
...pace. Each point the writer wishes to make comes with a quote to add color and authority. The color and the authority often take up more precious space than the point itself: "Iraq may not become a quagmire. 'We'll feed the Kurds and then amscray,' says retired Lieut. Colonel William Finnegan, now a senior fellow at the Center for War, Pestilence, Famine and Death in Washington...
...Take Major General Justin Lekhanya of Lesotho, a former policeman who seized control of the small African country in 1986. Last week rebellious army officers marched him to a radio station in the capital of Maseru, forced him to read a resignation speech and then replaced him with Colonel Elias Ramaema...
Last week as American troops turned over an observation post north of Safwan to U.N. observers, both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia tried to assure the refugees that their worst dreams were not coming to pass. Colonel William Nash, commanding officer of U.S. forces in Safwan, told General Gunther Greindl, head of the U.N. observer force, "We will continue to protect the refugees in this area." In Saudi Arabia, General Khalid bin Sultan al-Saud, head of the Saudi forces during the war, announced that his government would accept and shelter the stranded Iraqis by building a $30 million camp...