Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Best of Enemies. War is heck in this comedy of military errors set in Ethiopia and starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi...
...ancient Egypt had been forgotten and its writings were a closed book, nor did there appear any bright prospects for the future. The Mamelukes [the ruling class of Egypt] had made the country almost as inaccessible to travelers as Tibet is today, the Sudan was virtually unknown, and Ethiopia, locked away in its remote mountains, was still the land of Prester John, a region of horrendous legends and medieval myths...
James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
Exports: Bananas, livestock products. Per capita income: $42. U.S. aid (1961): $4,200,000. Somalis of Arabian origin, hope to annex ethnically linked areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, French Somaliland into "Greater Somalia." Strong resistance to Communism...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, the two Congos, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Mau ritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo and Upper Volta...