Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Routinely, the state-run TV network in Ethiopia puts on a prime-time horror show intended-quite literally-to terrify the nation's 28 million inhabitants. Shots of racked bodies of political prisoners tortured to death, corpses of dissidents shot down by mobs of armed vigilantes-they all flicker across the screen as evidence of the ruthless determination of what may be one of the most brutal and arbitrary regimes in power today...
...slim lieutenant colonel with a sharklike grin named Mengistu Haile Mariam. An avowed Marxist, he was one of a coterie of officers who finally deposed Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974. Today, at 39, he has emerged as the top man in Ethiopia's 60-member junta, largely by pressing a campaign of arrests and killings that rivals even Ugandan Field Marshal Idi Amin's considerable efforts in this area. Mostly, Mengistu's efforts have been aimed at half a dozen rebel organizations, including a full-fledged guerrilla force fighting for independence in Eritrea...
President Carter's emphasis on human rights clearly played a role in the Americans' expulsion. Only last February, after reviewing a State Department report excoriating the Mengistu regime for widespread abuses, the White House withdrew $6 million in military assistance to Ethiopia. Making the gesture a pretext for conclusively switching Ethiopia's allegiance from Washington to Moscow, Mengistu did not appear at all perturbed when the U.S. suspended shipment late last week of another $100 million in arms already pledged to his government...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia--The Ethiopian government yesterday closed the U.S. consulate in Eritrea province, and four other U.S. facilities in Ethiopia, expelling over 300 Americans from the country...
...lists. For India, contenders included Phillips Talbot, president of the Asia Society, and Robert Goheen, former president of Princeton; for Japan, Marshall Green, one of State's foremost Asian experts and a former Ambassador to Indonesia and Australia, and Arthur Hummel, a former Ambassador to Burma and Ethiopia and lately assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs...