Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rivals also disagreed about South Yemen's role in the Horn of Africa. Robaye Ali, who had ordered 1,000 paratroopers to assist Ethiopia against Somalia in the Ogaden, did not want to use his soldiers against guerrillas in the breakaway province of Eritrea. Ismail...
...leader, is facing middle age. Castro and his comrades are afraid that the youth, untested in struggle and cosseted by the socialist state, will grow up soft and complacent. Officials in Havana say frankly that one reason for sending young Cubans on what they call "internationalist missions" to Angola, Ethiopia and other embattled Third World countries is to give them a taste of the way their elders fought against the government troops of Dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s and against U.S.-backed invaders at the Bay of Pigs...
...pitched battles against South African or Rhodesian army units. If the amount of Cuban blood spilled in Africa should increase dramatically, Castro might have to resort to officially conscripting soldiers for African duty. Privately, a number of Cuban officials admit that their routing of the Somali invaders of Ethiopia last spring was a walkover, but that there are no more easy victories in Africa. They also concede that while Castro and his legion of "internationalist fighters" may still be, by their lights, on solid ideological and military ground in Africa, they could be only a few false steps away from...
...carefully selected and well-prepared students put on an impressive display of Cuban groupthink. But then Congressman Solarz tried to inject some spontaneity into the discussion-and caught the students off guard. When he called for a show of hands by those who had friends fighting in Angola or Ethiopia, 16 were hesitantly raised. He asked how many of the students had friends who had been killed or wounded in Africa; by reflex, four students started to raise their hands. But University Vice Rector Fernando Rojas made an urgent, commanding gesture that caused all hands to drop. Cuban casualties...
From then on, the students seemed less sure of themselves. Solarz shifted to questions about the Eritrean rebellion in Ethiopia and the civil war in Rhodesia. The students seemed confounded. "You are asking us to perform a great abstraction," complained Álvarez. "No, I'm not," said Solarz, "I'm just asking for your personal opinions." "Our opinion is free, open and democratic," explained Jiménez, "but it must coincide with the foreign policy of the revolutionary Cuban government...