Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something of a miracle, then, that the political center fashioned after Mengistu's flight is holding. Though the interim government is dominated by Meles' Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, its ruling council includes representatives from 35 different parties. Last July it adopted a charter ensuring each ethnic nationality the right to self- determination. Step One -- 12 regional elections to be held by the end of the year -- will pave the way for local autonomy or even secession. Already, the Red Sea province of Eritrea has set up its own provisional government and will hold a United Nations-sponsored referendum...
...triumph of democracy in the Soviet Union, he is denying support to his only reliable democratic ally in the Middle East. He is shunning the ongoing effort of the U.S. and Israel to relocate Soviet Jewry. He is forgetting the miracle of Operation Solomon that successfully freed 15,000 Ethiopian Jews during the 36-hour operation...
President Bush, one of the many who fought for the release of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, is now turning his back on one million refugees at a time when Israel desperately needs U.S. support. Consider the scale of the absorption project: a country of only 3 million citizens is attempting to absorb one million new refugees in five years. That is like each of France's 80 million citizens migrating to the United States. It's like China absorbing 300 million new immigrants...
...food. A Shell Oil installation, which is under the front's control, is sending only 10% of the usual fuel supply to the rest of Ethiopia. Says a Western businessman at the port: "There is the definite feeling of a squeeze play here." Wary of the Eritreans, Ethiopian producers of coffee, the country's biggest export, are not sending their goods to Assab...
Yafa Bogalay, 28, is happy with the trade-off. Her first life ended in 1981, when she fled to Israel after Ethiopian government troops raided her village school in the Gondar province, hauling away suspected rebels. "I cried and cried when I first got here," she says. Now she works at a child-care center in Ashdod and refuses to teach her three children her native language. "I don't want to even think about Ethiopia," she says. "There was too much suffering." Her sole indulgence in the past is listening to Ethiopian music on her tape player, which offers...