Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particulars about Soviet misbehavior. High on the list are the continuing arms buildup that threatens to upset the global military balance; Soviet support for terrorism through Libya, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Organization; the continued occupation of Afghanistan; and Soviet intervention in such Third World nations as Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Cambodia...
...compromises go, Tsongas's is not so bad. He is a liberal in the good sense of the word, the sense that comes from having lived in Ethiopia and in Lowell. Much of what he says is astute, and most of what he says is correct in a public policy sort of way. But in an age like ours, is compromise enough? Must politics forever be the art of the possible...
...timing and timidity in foreign affairs, the world has had to make quite an adjustment. The Soviets, while continuing to denounce Reagan on the surface, have grown oddly silent beneath the waves. By this time in Carter's first year, they had agreed to put troops into Ethiopia and were engineering a coup in Afghanistan...
...eight U.S. F-14s had attacked its planes and that one F-14 had been shot down, and at first did not acknowledge the loss of any Libyan aircraft. Colonel Gaddafi, in Aden to sign a political and economic cooperation agreement with the radical regimes of South Yemen and Ethiopia, called for Arab mobilization against the U.S. But his government said that it would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees and their families. Nor was there any indication by week's end that Libya, which ranks...
...Eric Clapton in 1974, was an outspoken advocate of Rastafarianism, a Jamaica-based political-religious cult embracing a variety of ideas and trends: reggae music, marijuana use, a return to the "promised land" in Africa and belief in the divinity of the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia...