Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both shore lines. There is speculation in Djibouti's seedy bars that Moscow has not tried to establish diplomatic ties with independent Djibouti because the Kremlin may have already marked the territory for eventual disappearance-perhaps in a partition by the new republic's neighbors, Somalia and Ethiopia, which are both pro-Moscow but feuding bitterly with each other...
Curfew in Addis Ababa starts at midnight, but the shooting in Ethiopia's frightened capital (pop. 1 million) begins long before that. Shortly after sunset, armed members of the city's 291 kebeles (neighborhood associations) take to nearly deserted streets seeking "class enemies of the broad masses" -meaning opponents of the brutal Marxist regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and his military administrative council, known as the Dergue. Scouring slum areas of the capital, kebele patrols kick open doors of mud huts in search of objects that would prove subversive intent. Among them: typewriters and field glasses...
...massacres-another, in which more than 300 were killed, took place on April 29-reflect the jitters of a besieged regime. From the rebellious northern province of Eritrea to Ethiopia's southeastern frontier with Somalia, Mengistu and the Dergue face the gravest threat to their despotic rule since they overthrew U.S.-backed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In and around the capital, the main opposition group is the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (E.P.R.P.), a Marxist organization, led primarily by students and young workers, that demands a return to civilian rule. E.P.R.P. has given the Dergue good reason...
...Territory of the Afars and the Issas, whose 215,000 citizens last week voted for independence.* Mengistu fears that Somalia will encourage the territory's Somali-speaking Issa majority to cut the railroad linking Addis Ababa with the port of Djibouti, through which moves more than half of Ethiopia's foreign trade. Unless he can work out a deal with Somalia's President, Muhamed Siad Barre, Ethiopia may have yet another combat zone on its frontiers when the territory becomes the Republic of Djibouti-Africa's 49th nation -on June...
...possibility of a war over Djibouti that Mengistu visited Moscow this month to solidify his new alliance with the Soviet Union. Mengistu and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny signed a declaration laying the "foundations for friendship and cooperation"-diplomatic sugar-coating on Moscow's agreement last December to supply Ethiopia with $100 million in arms. Moscow had good reason to show such benign feelings: Mengistu last month expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials on the ground that the U.S. had helped the late Emperor "suppress the liberation struggle of the oppressed masses" (TIME...