Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million-year-old human ancestor is unearthed in Ethiopia...
Some Mason graduate have had turbulent careers. Belai Abai, former minister of land reform in Ethiopia, was jailed when President Haile Selassie was overthrown in the mid-1970s. Abai's services were so valuable, however, that the new government sent a car and driver to take him from prison to his office every day. A. M. A. Mulith became minister of finance in Bangladesh after last month's coup. Sergio Bitar lost his job as minister of mines in Chile when the government of Salvadore Allende was toppled...
Casting the role of the black slave Jim required more ingenuity. Govorukhin searched the universities for likely black students from Ethiopia, Angola or Mozambique. He finally selected an Ethiopian named Behailu Mengesha, who was studying at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University. Mengesha, who is now back home in Ethiopia, resisted pressures from friends, who advised him that playing the role of a slave would be demeaning...
...their country's involvement in El Salvador but by week's end were judged "not ready" to face the press. Finally, there was a young Nicaraguan soldier who was produced by the State Department but then promptly repudiated his previous statements about being trained in Cuba and Ethiopia and having been sent into El Salvador by his government. The U.S. did have solid evidence of a major military buildup in Nicaragua, and former high national security officials were persuaded by still secret intelligence that the Sandinistas were helping the El Salvador rebels. Nonetheless, the blunders and bad luck...
Nineteen-year-old Orlando Jose Tardencillas proudly confirmed that he had voluntarily joined rebel troops in El Salvador after fighting to overthrow the Somoza regime in his native Nicaragua. He denied, however, ever having been to Cuba or Ethiopia and said that he had been coerced into that lie by U.S. officials after his capture by Salvadoran National Guardsmen last year. Describing brutal torture in a Salvadoran government jail, he said that U.S. Embassy representatives offered him a simple choice: "They gave me an option. They said I could come here or face certain death. All my previous statements about...