Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regional conflicts. The region's problems have their roots in the legacy of colonialism. The principal problem has been with Somalia, which seeks to expand its frontiers at the expense not only of Ethiopia but of other countries too. My meeting with Somali President Siad Barre last January was undertaken at our initiative. Although one cannot expect to wipe away such long-standing problems in one stroke, the beginning has not been without hope...
...problem in Sudan is internal. As an expression of our goodwill, we made meetings between warring Sudanese factions possible. Because we are neighbors, all major political and social disturbances overflow into Ethiopia. We think the proper solution for Sudan is to address its fundamental problems. We are perfectly willing to develop good relations between our two countries...
...been largely inaccessible to the Western press in the dozen years since he and fellow military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie. Muller had reason to hope he might be an exception. Eighteen years earlier, he and his wife Maggie McComas, now an associate editor at FORTUNE, had gone to Ethiopia to teach school as Peace Corps volunteers. Just as Muller was about to embark, word was passed along from Addis Ababa that the interview was on. He quickly rearranged his plans...
...Mengistu agreed to the exclusive interview that appears in this week's issue but the government also placed a Soviet-built Mi-17 helicopter at the disposal of the TIME group, which included Nairobi Bureau Chief James Wilde and Photographer William Campbell. They were given a glimpse of Ethiopia rarely seen by Western journalists. On a side trip to Holeta (pop. 3,000), 27 miles west of Addis Ababa, Muller met the current headmaster of one of his old schools. Reports Muller: "We were best remembered, apparently, for having brought the school a duplicating machine...
...VICTORY OF SOCIALISM IS INEVITABLE! proclaims the arch that leads to Revolution Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. That slogan expresses the aspirations of those who lead one of the poorest nations on earth. Torn by famine and civil war, Ethiopia (pop. 40 million) has been stumbling from crisis to crisis for more than a decade. Now under Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, who seized power in 1977 after the military ousted Emperor Haile Selassie three years earlier, the ancient African nation is using a complex blend of doctrinaire Marxist-Leninism and old-fashioned nationalism to address its most intractable...