Word: ethiopia
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...then there are the utterly impoverished nations-countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Chad and Haiti. These constitute what is now being called the "Fourth World": countries with burgeoning populations, few natural resources and an undeveloped industrial base. According to World Bank President Robert McNamara, who will issue a grim survey of the world economy this week, there are some 900 million people in this Fourth World who subsist on incomes of less than $75 a year. "They are the absolute poor," said McNamara, "living in situations so deprived as to be below any rational definition of human decency...
...others deposed were Niger's President Hamani Diori, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Madagascar's head of state Gabriel Ramanantsoa and Chad's President Ngarta Tombalbaye...
...have transformed Somalia's 17,000-man armed forces into some of the strongest on the continent. Of the 3,000 or so Russians in Somalia today, fully 1,400 are assigned to the army and air force. The Somali army, less than half the size of neighboring Ethiopia's, now has far superior firepower-and the largest tank force south of the Sahara. The air force boasts a squadron of Ilyushin-28 bombers and at least 50 MIGS, including seven MIG-21s that were presented to Somalia by Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny when he visited the country...
...increasingly arid scene of Harvard Square. Large numbers of students and other passersby seem to enjoy it, too, and to take advantage of the opportunities it offers to buy hand-made things, bargain books, records and exotic things that backpackers have just brought in from Guatemala, Peru, Nepal and Ethiopia...
...Ethiopia has urgently requested about $30 million in light arms and ammunition from the U.S. in order to carry on its fight against Eritrean secession ists, who are being supplied by Algeria and Syria with Russian machine guns and antiaircraft missiles...