Word: ethiopia
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...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...
...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...
Labels are a handy and necessary form of compression. How else does a reader remember whether it is Ethiopia or Somalia that is under Soviet and Cuban domination? But labels can mislead. In his new autobiographical Ways of Escape, Graham Greene writes: "I had an idea before I went to Malaya, an idea picked up from an unsympathetic press, of a group of men, the harsh overseers of great capitalist enterprises, intransigent, unconstructive exploiters of native labor, drinking stengah after stengah in the local club, probably in the Somerset Maugham manner making love to each other's wives...
...great deal of support within the Soviet government for aggressive invasion-type moves or infiltration-type moves. I think that they also do a lot of probing and testing, and if they don't meet any resistance--and they didn't in Angola, and they didn't in Ethiopia, and they didn't in Yemen, and they didn't meet much in Afghanistan except within Afghanistan--then they go ahead and do more. Each time they meet no resistance on one of these infilitrations or actual invasions, they're encouraged to do more. And I think they've had plans...
Realizing that the Esmeralda management meant the Cuban government, Glassman reread the documents, substituting Cuba for Esmeralda. One report discussed the Communist official's trip and the weapons he was promised. Another document spoke of Esmeralda-Cuba as a transshipment point for weapons from Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and mentioned guerrilla supply lines through Nicaragua. The grocery-store papers represented over 70% of the material that Washington used to draw up last month's White Paper documenting Soviet and Cuban arms aid to El Salvador's insurgency...