Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went on: "The Russian tactics in Africa are like the tactics of a parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
According to a 45-page sheaf of transcripts uncovered last month at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kans., by Rice University Historian Francis Loew-enheim, Ike taped 27 conversations between 1953 and 1958. His conversational partners were legislators, journalists, aides, businessmen and heads of state, including Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Greece's Queen Frederika. The recording machine itself, which resembled a supply cabinet, was installed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the nearby office of Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann Whitman. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and some other officials knew of its existence...
...Iran is not the principal example. The best examples of unrestrained Soviet conduct, in which they create the opportunity rather than simply reaping the harvest of our failure, are the dispatch of Cuban proxy forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the two invasions of Zaire from Angola, the Communist coups in South Yemen and Afghanistan, and the Soviet friendship treaty with Viet Nam just prior to Viet Nam's occupation of Cambodia. Also, there's the establishment of Soviet bases in Viet Nam and military depots in Ethiopia and Libya, the dispatch of air forces to Cuba...
...Paul E. Tsongas, 38, a cool, darkly handsome man with an unruly shock of hair, has a touch of Kennedy about him. Indeed, it was John F. Kennedy who inspired Tsongas (pronounced Song-as) to spend two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia before getting his law degree at Yale. Tsongas opened his practice in his home town of Lowell, Mass., where his Greek emigrant grandfather had settled, and won his first election to Congress in 1974, by defeating Republican Edward Brooke. Considered to be one of the party's rising young liberals, Tsongas has strongly supported the Kennedy...
...internal settlement in Zimbabwe Rhodesia was attacked by speaker after speaker. There was wide support for the Patriotic Front insurgency of Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, but none at all for Bishop Abel Muzorewa. Nonetheless, a majority of black states managed to head off proposals by Libya, Algeria and Ethiopia to recognize the Patriotic Front as a "government in exile...