Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ineffectiveness of the American grain and high technology embargoes is no surprise. Economic warfare during peacetime has a long record of failure dating back at least to the League of Nations' trade sanctions against Italy after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Other current U.S. embargoes are notably unsuccessful in either bringing down hostile regimes, muting their policies or stopping U.S. goods from getting through. Viet Nam has been subject to a trade ban since the 1975 fall of Saigon. Yet that country easily imports American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes...
...familiar complaint, among them the stifling class lines and Victorian morality that caused some of the Queen's subjects to seek freedom in the backwaters of the Empire. This was not entirely the case with Thesiger. Born in Addis Ababa, eldest son of Britain's Minister to Ethiopia, his formative memories were of camels, tents, festooned warriors and "sitting beside my father in the twilight above a gorge, hoping he would get a shot at a leopard." At age seven, Thesiger accompanied his father to Somaliland, where the British were fighting dervishes under the command...
...again he sought remote areas of the Muslim world where "it is as meritorious to kill a Christian as to go on the pilgrimage." He traveled under various auspices: in the Sudan Political Service, and as a locust-control officer and a soldier during World War II serving in Ethiopia, Syria, Egypt and Palestine...
Belai Tewolde, a member of the Association of Eritrean Students, also discussed neo-colonialism and Pan-Africanism in the Eritrean struggle with Ethiopia...
...huge Soviet-built naval installation at Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, about 625 miles north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which since the mid-1960s has been...