Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bizarre slayings. The missing Bradford Bishop was considered by his friends to be hard-working and considerate. A 1959 graduate of Yale, with a master's degree in history from Middlebury College, Vt., Bishop had served in the Foreign Service for half a dozen years in Ethiopia, Italy and Botswana. For the past year he was a $26,000 federal official with a lengthy title: assistant chief, Special Trade Activities and Commercial Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. Neighbors and relatives could recall no marital problems between Bishop and Annette...
...about the prospect that potential Soviet client states, beefed up with Russian military and economic aid, might be tempted to interfere in the domestic affairs of their neighbors-with or without Moscow's approval. Zambia is already concerned about subversion by the M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda. Kenya and Ethiopia are afraid that Somalia, a major recipient of Moscow's largesse, might try to revive its longtime dream of a "greater Somalia" by pushing its territorial claims into southern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya, where many ethnic Somalis live. The Nairobi government also fears that Soviet aid to Uganda might...
...summit's host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling...
...Prenile, river No. 4, appeared 620,000 years ago. Fed by rains in the highlands of Ethiopia and the western Sudan, the river flowed for nearly half a million years before vanishing during another period of aridity...
...resolution opposing all foreign interference in Angola. He had no trouble convincing Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, who has at least 1,000 army regulars fighting with the F.N.L.A. Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's Leopold Senghor also went along. Washington also persuaded Ethiopia to hold off recognition at least until after the summit, on the ground that as host to the O.A.U., it should remain neutral...