Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chosen in freely contested elections, ending in 1948. According to a school of diplomatic thought dating back to Woodrow Wilson, only constitutionally elected governments should be acceptable to the community of nations. The Nationalists can also cite a more widely held point of international law, the so-called "Ethiopian Principle," which dates from 1938 when Emperor Haile Selassie was in hiding from his country's Italian invaders. Rome then sought international recognition of its sovereignty over Ethiopia but was rebuffed on the grounds that so long as a government retains any part of its territory, it is still...
...Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin recently overthrew President Milton Obote with Israeli-advised armed forces. Occasionally, however, such programs give rise to ironic situations. When Arab leaders visit Addis Ababa to attend meetings of the Organization for African Unity, for instance, they are closely guarded by Ethiopian security men who received their training in Israel...
...increased withdrawal rates announced last week by the President are maintained, U.S. troop levels will be down to 50,000 by late summer of 1972 and just over 25,000 on Election Day. After that, what U.S. military planners have in mind, starting perhaps by mid-1973, is an "Ethiopian-type mission"* of somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 men. That would be a return to the kind of presence that the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the beginning of the 1960s with its Military Assistance Advisory Group. Before that level is reached, there could still...
...front's 3,000 combatants have the run of the Eritrean countryside but do not control it. Says an Ethiopian division commander, Brigadier General Merid Bayene: "They are trained to ambush, but they can't stand and fight for more than two minutes in one spot...
...Ethiopian government has responded to E.L.F. tactics by declaring a state of emergency and placing most of Eritrea, with its 2,000,000 people, under military rule. Asmara, a sunny city of stucco buildings and broad piazzas that is perched atop a 7,600-ft. plateau, shows few signs of trouble. But the calm ends at the city limits. In the hope of denying food to the guerrillas, the army is moving much of the rural population, Viet Nam-style, into some 200 "fortified villages." Rebel activity has fallen off sharply since the army offensive began three months...