Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have committed the 1948 murder of Swedish U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte. Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew a full beard and traveled around the country disguised as a rabbi; in 1946 he helped fellow prisoners in Eritrea tunnel their way to freedom, fled to Ethiopia and sought asylum in France. When the British quit Palestine in 1948, following the creation of the state of Israel, Shamir returned at last to Tel Aviv. He later entered the shadowy realm of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD...
...close to Moscow or from sheer necessity. The likely answer: sheer necessity. The Dergue depends on Soviet arms in its smoldering border conflict with Somalia. Moscow has also sent helicopter gunships, artillery and military advisers to supplement Ethiopian troops fighting guerrillas who seek independence for the northern province of Eritrea. Mengistu also needs help against armed rebellions in several other provinces...
...Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases...