Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa, after years of bloody anticolonial and civil wars, is quiet, but only relatively. The new military regime in Ethiopia is trying, without much success, to crush the twelve-year-old secessionist movement in the strategically important northern province of Eritrea. Last week, in the Red Sea port of Assab and the Eritrean capital of Asmara, fighting flared between the government and units of the 6,000-man-strong Eritrean Liberation Front, and rebel bombs and grenades exploded in crowded Asmara restaurants. With the government vowing to "beat back the bandits" (as it calls the rebels), fighting in northern Ethiopia...
...Desert Lion" because of his successful campaigns against the Somalis during the border fighting of the early 1960s, Aman had taken a conciliatory approach to such issues as student dissent, the fate of the detained ex-Ministers, and above all the problems faced by his home province of Eritrea, which has been torn by secessionist guerrilla violence ever since Ethiopia annexed...
...should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should be solved by granting the province greater autonomy...
...replace General Aman, the council named Brigadier General Teferi Benti, 53, a career soldier who commanded the Eritrea-based Second Army Division. A hard-liner who can be trusted to follow the orders of Major Mengistu, General Teferi in his first order sent 7,000 troops to reinforce the Second Division, possibly for a showdown with the Eritrean secessionists...
They were geologists searching for oil when suddenly they became pawns in Ethiopia's guerrilla war. They fell into guerrilla hands on March 26 when their helicopter went down in Eritrea province. Ever since, the men-Powers W. Case, 36, John W. Rogers, 50, both Texans, and Canadian Clifford James, 27, all employees of Tenneco, Inc., along with U.N. Geologist Matti Tavela, 54, an American working in Ethiopia-have been held. Their captors are members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which is waging a bloody secessionist battle. Tenneco has already agreed to an E.L.F. demand for $3 million...