Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Willie Morris, former British ambassador to Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia, said yesterday recent events have increased the likelihood of a full-scale war in the Middle East...
...radicals hostile to us dominate key regions; whether our alliances are vital or sliding toward lassitude." He left no doubt which way he thought the tide was running: "Precariously situated countries in the Middle East see the Soviet-supported Cuban advance coming up through Africa to Ethiopia right across the Red Sea. To them the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan now overshadows the Persian Gulf like the northern arm of a great pincer. And they see no effective resistance. Somewhere, somehow, the United States must show that it is capable of rewarding a friend or penalizing an opponent." Otherwise, he said...
...again trying to avoid that world. Carter is obsessed by his claim that not a single American boy has died because of any of his orders. This attitude obscures the fact that his uncertain trumpet has surely encouraged the Cuban mercenaries in Africa, the Soviet dislocations in Ethiopia and the invasion of Afghanistan. All produced death and suffering for others. Now we are in danger of being pushed toward a conflict that could horribly mock Carter's self-righteousness...
They fly wounded Afghan soldiers out for treatment to their own sophisticated medical facilities. They supply the Vietnamese with everything from military hardware to sewing machines. They advise and train Ethiopia's troops and police and provide the machinery for its new security and intelligence apparatus...
...idea occurred to Kortlandt, 62, in 1976 on a dig in Ethiopia at a prehistoric site. Resting in the shade of a thorny acacia tree, he realized that a short bipedal creature could easily enough break off a branch covered with hooklike thorns, and wave it as a weapon; lions, Kortlandt knew, stay clear of thorns. To test his theory, he journeyed to the Kora National Reserve in Kenya and set large chunks of meat covered with thorn branches near a pride of twelve lions tamed by George Adamson of Born Free fame. The lions approached and batted tentatively...