Word: eritreans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From then on, the students seemed less sure of themselves. Solarz shifted to questions about the Eritrean rebellion in Ethiopia and the civil war in Rhodesia. The students seemed confounded. "You are asking us to perform a great abstraction," complained Álvarez. "No, I'm not," said Solarz, "I'm just asking for your personal opinions." "Our opinion is free, open and democratic," explained Jiménez, "but it must coincide with the foreign policy of the revolutionary Cuban government...
Solarz pressed on: "Do you believe Cuba should send its troops into Rhodesia?" Jiménez answered lamely: "We are only modest students who have a certain level of information." Embarrassed silence greeted the Congressman when he asked if the Eritrean secessionists, whom Cuba used to support but now opposes, were counterrevolutionaries. Esteban Morales, one of the four professors present, tried to rescue his uncomfortable students with a little dialectical gobbledygook. "I consider that the analysis of this question," said Morales, "depends on a logical assessment of the concrete situation, and to evaluate, one must ask how to advance...
...withdraw in March of this year not, as Carter claims, because of U.S. pressure, but rather because they were incapable of sustaining the fight. The Soviets who have set themselves up as the champions of the black liberation movements are now supporting the Dergue's squelching of the Eritrean independence movement. They are supporting a regime that has moved to wipe out student opposition in the country and that has already killed thousands of Ethiopians--unofficial estimates go as high as 100,000? while the State Department claims they knew of only four to five thousand killed...
Sunday, April 9: International Week Lecture and Discussion: Home of Africa and the Eritrean Revolution; Schneider Center...
...Egypt and Somalia in recent years, is making a high-stakes play for Ethiopia. With its Communist help, the Addis Ababa junta (known as the "Dergue") has a strong chance not only of defeating the Somalis in the Ogaden, but also of strengthening its position against the Eritrean secessionists, whose guerrilla forces control most of that province. The Soviet press has attacked Somalia as a bastion of reactionary forces, even though the country was until lately one of Moscow's most cherished Third World allies. Recent visitors to Moscow have included Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro and Premier...