Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production. We have laws and special provisions for private investment. We do not reject foreign investment. It is unthinkable for a country to have substantial economic development in isolation. We have a joint-venture law for the introduction of foreign capital, technology and skills. A number of American and European firms have demonstrated interest in working in Ethiopia, and some operations are already under...
...owned South African Airways flew 100,000 passengers, mostly white officials, businessmen and tourists, to and from the U.S. last year. The proposal by some Senators and others to rescind the country's landing rights in the U.S. would inconvenience such travelers, probably causing a half-day detour through European cities. Quite quickly, however, small airlines in Swaziland or Botswana could expand, with South Africa's help, to fill the void...
This clash over what must come first may harden. The United Democratic Front, the largest apartheid coalition, which claims more than 600 organizations with 2 million members, now calls for nothing less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
...adopted later this year, will enshrine the Soviet-oriented ruling Workers' Party of Ethiopia as the "guiding force of the state and the entire society." Says a Western diplomat: "Under the new constitution, Mengistu will have more power than the late Emperor." Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Soviet, East European and Cuban advisers are stationed throughout the Ethiopian armed forces and government ministries. In all, Moscow has provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion in military...
...scene is not a New England tennis camp but the Prague Tennis Club, and the teenagers are the honors class in the Czechoslovak national tennis program. With 30,000 youthful players and 2,650 coaches, the program has brought the small (pop. 15.4 million) East European nation to the heights of international tennis: besides Navratilova, its alumni include Ivan Lendl, the world's No. l player, and such other top seeds as Miloslav Mecir, Helena Sukova and Hana Mandlikova -- who surprised the tennis world last week by marrying an Australian restaurateur between rounds of the Federation...