Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish the meeting to succeed. And that is the international prestige of the President of the United States. We in Israel are an integral part of the free world, and the free world is under constant onslaught. You can see what is happening around us. Aden, Southern Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique-all these countries were actually taken over by the Soviet Union. There is a plan in Moscow to take over country after country, usually by proxy...
...young girls to help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with his friend Paul Robeson. He was so deeply affected by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that he broke through a police line to embrace Haile Selassie when the exiled Emperor arrived at Waterloo Station...
...middle course between the superpowers. He has paid cash for Soviet arms and welcomed Soviet help in building the Euphrates Dam (which will probably not be fully operational for another decade because of major flaws in planning). But Assad has parted company with the Soviets over their policy in Ethiopia, where he continues to support the breakaway Eritrean rebels. He also has improved relations with Washington, which allocated his government $90 million in aid this year. Recently, Assad opened up Syria's northeast oil region to two American companies?a sign, some aides say, of his intention to reduce further...
While accepting the rationale for Soviet, Cuban and East German intervention in Ethiopia and Angola, Obasanjo argued that East-bloc aid to black Africa must have limits. "The Soviets should not overstay their welcome," he warned. "Africa is not about to throw off one colonial yoke for another. The Soviets should therefore see it to be in their interest not to seek to perpetually maintain their presence even after the purpose for which they were invited has been achieved. This way they run the risk of being dubbed a new imperial power, as indeed they already are being called even...
...codified by the 1972 statement of Basic Principles signed by Nixon and Brezhnev. This committed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to prevent situations "capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations" and "which would serve to increase international tensions." Moscow has ignored that pledge by its military intervention in Ethiopia, persistent attempts to derail Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's Middle East peace initiative, and efforts to discredit the Anglo-American formula for the peaceful transfer of power to the black majority in southern Africa...