Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door to mutual cooperation. He reaffirmed détente as "central to world peace," but added that it must be "reciprocal." The President offered Moscow a wide variety of potential areas for working together with the U.S., ranging from joint solution of political problems in Rhodesia, Namibia, even Ethiopia, to further development of trade, cultural and scientific exchanges. Even the prospects for a SALT II agreement, noted Carter in an upbeat section of his speech, were "good...
Those same locusts that plagued ancient Egypt and the Israelites -known to science as Schistocerca gregaria forsk-were back again. This time, the country under attack was Ethiopia. Last week agriculture experts reported that sections of the country's northern provinces were being devastated by 33 separate locust swarms, ranging in size from 5 to 40 sq. mi. Neighboring Somalia, meanwhile, reported 17 giant swarms of the buzzing, shell-covered creatures, which can sweep 100 sq. mi. of farm land clean overnight. Jean Roy, an expert in locust control operations for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
...proposed that Ethiopia and Somalia each declare states of emergency to combat the locusts. Cooperation in the battle against the insects seemed unlikely, since the two nations were still at odds because of an abortive Somali attempt to seize the Ogaden region; Ethiopia had repulsed that invasion with Russian and Cuban help. Meanwhile, the migrating locusts were slowly eating their way toward mountainous country in northern Ethiopia, where it would be much harder to locate and attack them with insecticides. The desert locust breeds every six weeks. If the swarms were not soon brought under control, Roy warned, their offspring...
...locusts were not enough of a problem for Ethiopian Leader Mengistu Haile Mariam, his country was also faced once again with mass famine. In Ethiopia's Wollo and Tigre provinces, crops had been scourged by a deadly fungus known as ergot. The fungus, called St. Anthony's fire in medieval days, creates an unholy dilemma. Anyone who eats the infected grain risks the danger of a circulatory disorder that eventually blocks blood flow and causes gangrene. The alternative is starvation. FAO experts believe that the famine is potentially as crippling as the one that Ethiopia suffered...
Cuban casualties in Africa are rarely mentioned in the heavily censored news reports published at home. An informed Western estimate, however, sets the number of Cuban dead and wounded hi Angola and Ethiopia at roughly 1,800. A few of the "walking wounded" have returned home, but the severely injured are generally treated and confined in East German and Soviet hospitals. The dead are buried on African soil...