Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the revolutionaries are indeed peasants is to mock the history of such revolutions, and to further suggest that any movement heavily supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union will improve the life of the peasants--one would merely have to ask the proletariat in, say, Afghanistan and Ethiopia if their conditions have improved since their Cuban- and Soviet-supported "People's Revolutions" took place...
...victory as signifying that Americans are ready to back a "policy of assertive competition" with the Soviets. Brzezinski implied that the Administration, when it agreed with the State Department, had been too soft on the Kremlin. He said U.S. lack of response ,to Moscow's sup port of Ethiopia in its war with Somalia in 1978 may have prevented Senate ratification of the SALT II treaty. Said Brzezinski: "SALT lies buried in the sands of Ogaden." Retorted Vance: "Hogwash...
...area. The U.S. earlier this year negotiated agreements for access to military facilities in Kenya, Somalia and Oman; it also has close ties with Egypt and is building up its Indian Ocean fleet. That network is intended to counter the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Now U.S. military planners may have to reckon with Moscow's closer Syrian connection as well...
...Aqaba's harbor is bristling with vessels ready to off-load war supplies. They are lined up like runners crowded together waiting to begin a cross-country race." The Soviets are apparently providing Iraq with spare parts, food and ammunition diverted from South Yemen and Ethiopia. U.S. intelligence sources, however, were satisfied that so far there have been no Soviet shipments of lethal heavy weaponry ?tanks, missiles and the like?to Iraq...
Belai Abai, former minister of land reform in Ethiopia, added that "Countries receive advice from Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge and they follow it and somehow things just don't work...