Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Being a peripatetic President is tiring, so Cuba's Fidel Castro decided to take five-on a reviewing stand in Ethiopia's Revolution Square. As Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia's head of state, chatted away, Castro slumped in his chair and watched a parade. Back in the days of Emperor Haile Selassie such behavior would not have passed muster. But as it happened, Castro was in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to help the country's Marxist rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor. Despite his fatigue, he managed...
...will "blow hot and cold," Huntington said. Referring to Western economic strength in relations with Russia, he said Soviet trade with the West which benefits the Soviet economy will most likely continue to increase provided that the Soviets restrain their activities with Cuba in African countries such as Ethiopia and Angola and if they "modify the way in which they treat their own people...
...Fellows include Sang Moon Chang, a South Korean diplomat and Chief of Protocol, Raymond M. Dafter, a British journalist, Peter Lynn Sinai, an Indian diplomat, and Kifle Wodajo, who resigned in 1977 as Foreign Minister in the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia...
...personnel carriers that he has requested. By bolstering Egypt's armed forces, the U.S. hopes to enable Cairo to play a more active role in African regional affairs, such as supporting neighboring Sudan. That country's pro-Western government is worried about the increased Soviet and Cuban influence in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa...
...leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrillas who are fighting for black rule in Rhodesia, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, flew separately last week to Addis Ababa. There they helped Ethiopia's Marxist military rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I. More important, from Nkomo's and Mugabe's point of view, they had a chance to confer at length with visiting Cuban President Fidel Castro, one of their principal supporters in the six-year-old war against the Salisbury regime...