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...past 24 years, Ethiopia's northern province of Eritrea, with its strategic 620-mile coastline on the Red Sea, has been mired in a savage war between Eritrean nationalists, who are fighting to win their independence, and the Ethiopian government, which is bent on subduing what it calls the "Eritrean bandits." The U.S. backed the Ethiopian regime of the late Emperor Haile Selassie during the early years of the civil war. But U.S. ties with the country all but dissolved after 1977, when Ethiopia's leader, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, allied his country with the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia a Forgotten War Rages On | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...fellow researchers, anthropologist Bonnie K. Holcomb and Swiss journalist Peter Niggli, conducted extensive interviews of nearly 250 randomly selected Ethiopian refugees in several regions of the Sudan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ethiopia Stops Famine Relief | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

...elaborately doctored postindustrial U.S. The discussion in recent years has gone in the other direction: Has medicine got so good that it is keeping people alive past their natural time? At a moment when rock fans of the First World undertake to cure a biblical scourge like the Ethiopian famine with 24 hours of music bounced off a satellite, AIDS, implacable and thus far incurable, comes as a shock. It arrives like a cannibal at the picnic and calmly starts eating the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Start of a Plague Mentality | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Isaac filed his suit against Harvard claiming that he was denied tenure 10 years ago in the Afro-American Studies Department because he is Ethiopian and Black...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Discrimination Suit Reinstated After Appeal | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...program" with what he took to be a promise of tenure. Ewart Guinier, profess of Afro-American Studies. Emeritus, and chairman of the department during Isaac's stay at Harvard, told The Crimson in October that the department had recommended him for tenure. Officials have said part because Ethiopian studies are not widely taught...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Discrimination Suit Reinstated After Appeal | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

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