Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California drug commando Todd Rundgren to produce music, she must have know what she would get-thick, homogenized sound with all the bite smoothed out. Wave is Smith's wimpiest yet. In a steady decline from the brilliant drive of Horses through the undisciplined but energetic cacophony of Radio Ethiopia, to the smooth commercial success of Easter last year, Patti Smith has shucked off the "Queen Bitch" persona and put on the airs of a little girl...
...angst has always been with Patti Smith, from Horses to Radio Ethiopia to Easter and even to Wave. If not present in pure noise, it is present in her whimpering and babelogue. Listen carefully. Behind the music of Patti Smith--behind her mesmerizing God-licks and Christ soliloquys--the seemingly mindless energy of punk is made indelibly clear and mindful...
...said the Soviet Union has already committed over a billion dollars in arms to Ethiopia, adding the East Germans are beginning to supply the economic assistance necessary to carry out the Dergue's development goals
Editorialized Paris' right-of-center Le Figaro: "U.S. influence has shrunk in all directions. It has lost Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and most recently a kingpin in Iran, guardian of the Gulfs oil... the Yankee umbrella has more and more holes in it. The free world now asks itself the question: Must it still count on Americans?" London's Daily Telegraph was no kinder: "There is a nervelessness at the center in Washington coupled with clumsiness at the extremities. Hence the alarming loss of respect...
...back a SALT treaty if he is satisfied that Soviet observance of its terms can be verified. He strongly rejects Republican arguments that such a treaty should be made conditional on more peaceful Soviet behavior elsewhere in the world. Insists Church: "Linking SALT to Soviet activities in Angola or Ethiopia makes no sense at all and is bound to fail. The treaty either serves our national interest or it doesn't. It ought to be judged on its own merits...