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...imperialist ambitions, he went on, "We have no commercial interests or desire for bases. We are just helping people achieve freedom." The Soviets, he added, in a dig at Reagan for supporting anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, "do not export counterrevolution." Moscow's sponsorship of regimes in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Kampuchea was no different from Washington's support of governments in its own "areas of vital interest," like El Salvador. Reagan dryly retorted that, unlike the Soviets, the U.S. has not occupied those areas with troops or gone to war there...
...balance, say Africa's boosters, much of the continent would now benefit from a "big bang" injection of aid and better trade conditions. Africa is not going to change overnight and there is sure to be frustrating backsliding from some countries. Two weeks ago, for example, the government in Ethiopia, which has won praise for its reforms over the past few years, was behind a violent crackdown on opposition supporters. It does seem possible, though, that with the right combination of policies we will look back in 20 years' time and see 2005 as a turning point...
RETURNED. The third and final piece of the 1,700-year-old AXUM OBELISK, an Ethiopian national treasure; after almost 70 years standing in Rome's Piazza di Porta Capena; in Axum, Ethiopia. The 24-m.-high, 160-ton structure was looted by Italian forces on the orders of Mussolini in 1937, and remained in Rome despite a 1947 U.N. agreement mandating its return. At an emotional reception for the obelisk, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi hailed it as "a symbol of [Ethiopia's] identity...
...sparse living. They do not dine in the new quaint restaurants that now grace Saigon. When we traveled to the far north of Vietnam, near the border with China, the houses in the countryside reminded me of those I had seen in my travels in Ethiopia. My wife's aunt, a professor of social work in Saigon, reminds us that Vietnam is only beginning to cope with serious social problems like drugs and family violence...
...discussed rather fully," Shultz told reporters later, "but I have nothing to report as to what possible constructive outcome there may be." Regional problems? Replying to Reagan's accusations that Moscow and its allies are imposing Marxist regimes by force on such Third World countries as Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Nicaragua, Gorbachev reaffirmed "an enduring Soviet policy to support wars of liberation as a national responsibility...