Word: ethiopian
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...somewhat, but the rise of fascism in Europe led to an industry oriented toward production for national use. All through these years, Sampson ignores conventional history and economics, merely tracing the nefarious activities of a handful of peddlers. Sampson does not say what a Messerschmidt can do to an Ethiopian tribesman, nor does he fully examine the Krupp family's role in the Nazi war machine. He is more concerned with the individuals and the extent of their business activities...
Most recently, Ethiopia broke off a major, multi-million dollar HIID contract in 1975, during the leftward shift of the Ethiopian government that followed the deposition of Emperor Haile Selassie...
During their campaign, the Somalis said, the guerrillas had cut the rail line linking the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa with the Red Sea port of Djibouti and had killed or captured 23,000 Ethiopian troops. The Somalis also accused the Ethiopians of burning villages and massacring hundreds of civilians during their retreat. By the end of August, vowed the Somali guerrillas, the entire region would be "liberated" and merged with the Somali Republic...
...hollow boast, perhaps, but the fact is that the Ethiopian empire of the late Haile Selassie is today threatened with disintegration. Indeed, the two hottest wars going on anywhere in the world at present are both taking place within Ethiopia. In the northern province of Eritrea, Addis Ababa's Marxist military government of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam has lost everything but the provincial capital of Asmara and the port cities of Massawa and Assab to the secessionist rebels. If Ethiopia should be defeated in both of its desert wars, it would lose more than 40% of its territory...
...military advisers last April-but has been working hard to improve its relations with Somalia. Along with France, the U.S. has been offering "defensive" arms to Somalia in an effort to wrest the Somalis from the Soviet grip. The French, for their part, are worried about both Somali and Ethiopian designs on Djibouti, which gained independence from France only two months ago. An irony of the current fighting in the Ogaden is that the Somalis are equipped with Soviet-made T-54 tanks and the Ethiopians with American-made M-60 tanks-yet the superpowers, in the years since they...