Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasingly arid scene of Harvard Square. Large numbers of students and other passersby seem to enjoy it, too, and to take advantage of the opportunities it offers to buy hand-made things, bargain books, records and exotic things that backpackers have just brought in from Guatemala, Peru, Nepal and Ethiopia...
...Ethiopia has urgently requested about $30 million in light arms and ammunition from the U.S. in order to carry on its fight against Eritrean secession ists, who are being supplied by Algeria and Syria with Russian machine guns and antiaircraft missiles...
...last week in Ethiopia's northern province of Eritrea, warfare continued between government forces and rebel soldiers who belong to the Eritrean Liberation Front, a well-armed Moslem guerrilla organization which is dedicated to whining Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia. The situation was summed up by a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "The country could fall apart one night...
...Asmara, the Eritrean capital, the rebels were reported to have blown up an important bridge at Keren, on the road to the Sudan to the west. In a drive to cut off the road from the port city of Assab on the Red Sea, the main source of Ethiopia's oil, the guerrillas warned truck drivers: "Put your nose out of town and you will be roasted alive!" Nonetheless, government troops tried to consolidate their hold on Asmara. Refugees, many leading donkeys or pushing wheelbarrows laden with pots and pans, straggled from the city past government tanks and machine...
...clock I was taken before the chubby commandant, who blandly asked if I had had a good night. Then he told me that I would be put on the noon flight out of Addis Ababa. He also asked when I might be back in Ethiopia. I replied that I thought that it probably rested a good deal with...