Word: eritrea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when the U.S. simply took over Britain's responsibilities in Greece and Turkey. In the Middle East, Britain's responsibility extends to oilfields and air bases in Iraq, guardianship of Suez and the Sudan, the tutorship of Jordan, to Aden and its naval base, troops in Eritrea, air bases at Derna and Tobruk in Libya, heavy naval responsibility in the eastern Mediterranean. Even if it were feasible (which it is not), the U.S. could not don the discredited garments of colonialism which Britain and France have worn for decades in the Middle East...
Gradually, supply caught up with demand. Today the college, with headquarters in Heidelberg, has more than 100 instructors, who travel as far afield as Eritrea, teaching a five-term schedule. (The Army and Air Force pay three-quarters of military students' fees, provide classrooms, handle registration and collect fees...
Precocious Pagliacci exhibited paintings in the Venice Biennale at 16. His career was interrupted in 1935, when he was called up for army service and sent off to Eritrea. During World War II he served as a magazine correspondent but was captured by the British...
...U.S.S.R. proposed outright independence for Eritrea. Poland plumped for independence in three years, Pakistan in two. Iraq wanted an Eritrean...
National Assembly to decide between independence and federation with Ethiopia. Foreign Minister Ato Abte-Wold Aklilou, Haile Selassie's spokesman, insisted that Eritrea belonged to their country, was Ethiopia's rightful window on the sea. Fourteen other nations, including the U.S., moved that Eritrea be given home rule within a great Ethiopia. The committee approved the resolution, dispatched it to the full Assembly...