Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the border fighting of the early 1960s, Aman had taken a conciliatory approach to such issues as student dissent, the fate of the detained ex-Ministers, and above all the problems faced by his home province of Eritrea, which has been torn by secessionist guerrilla violence ever since Ethiopia annexed...
...first hint of trouble had come only six days earlier, when Ethiopia's press announced that Major Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose name was previously unknown, had been the "true moving force" behind the nine-month-old "creeping coup" against Haile Selassie...
Practically nothing is yet known about the 36-year-old Mengistu except that he speaks for the council, a band of 120 men who range in rank from private to major. Though the council seems to be divided over exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should...
When the young anthropology assistant burst into the campsite in Ethiopia's remote Awash Valley, he was so excited that he could hardly gasp out the news. Only five minutes' walk from the tents, he had just spotted a completely intact human-like jawbone sticking out from under a layer of volcanic rock on the shore of a dry lake. Alemayehu Asfaw figured that the fossil was at least as old as the rock-and the rock had already been dated as more than 3 million years...
...slight nuances of size and shape in the fossil teeth. But Johanson is convinced that these teeth belonged to a full-fledged Homo, who probably used them to eat meat, which he obtained by "using tools, possibly bones, to kill animals." Furthermore, since there is recent geological evidence that Ethiopia's Awash Valley may once have been part of the Arabian Peninsula. Johanson ventures an even more imaginative theory: the cradle of man may be Arabia, not Africa...