Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home from a Christmas party. In Lebanon, an estimated 250 people were killed and another 400 kidnaped in that country's civil war. In Argentina, more than 85 leftists died in clashes with the army as President Isabel Peron struggled to maintain power (see story page 47). In Ethiopia, another U.S. civilian was kidnaped by Eritrean rebels, bringing to five the number of Americans held by the Eritreans. "We have been saying it for years," observed one intelligence official in Israel, the primary target of Arab terrorist attacks. "The world is facing a new wave of organized terror...
There are at least seven states potentially ripe for increased Soviet influence. One is Ethiopia, even though the radical regime that toppled the late Emperor Haile Selassie has so far looked primarily to the Chinese for help rather than to the Russians. Nonetheless, the Soviets have built an oil refinery and a 1,000-student polytechnical institute, and Nigeria, despite its strong ties to the West, has turned to the U.S.S.R. for warplanes and has sent 700 students to study in Soviet universities. Zambia too has gone to the Soviets for arms, as has Sierra Leone. Moscow is arming Rhodesian...
...permanent dole. They have few, if any, easily exploitable resources to sell abroad, and most are seemingly unable to grow enough food to feed themselves. The most notable catastrophe countries are Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and Bangladesh...
...Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust and Black Mischief, followed regularly throughout the '30s, always in Waugh's elegant, crystalline style. He traveled adventurously, a fascinated observer of the often comic clash between primitive and advanced cultures. From a newspaper assignment to cover the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, he got the material for Scoop, still a hilarious guide to the adrenaline world of journalism. Much of the novel's lunatic telegraphese was pure reportage. After the invasion, for example, newspaper offices heard a rumor that the Italians had bombed a native hospital, killing a beautiful American nurse...
...heads the World Health Organization's campaign against smallpox, has announced that "we will wipe out the disease within three or four months." No cases have been detected in Asia in two months; the world's last known pocket of smallpox is in a remote area of Ethiopia, and there too it will soon be stamped out. The victory was won by massive vaccinations, which may become a thing of the past...