Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm held its first auction in 1971, after the Soviets realized they could make hard currency selling Arabian purebreds. The best of the Arabians raised on the bluegrass and rich mineral water at the Tersk farm are acknowledged to be among the world's finest. U.S. Industrialist Armand Hammer and two partners in 1981 paid the Soviets $1 million for Pesniar, now an eight-year-old Arabian stallion that is standing at stud in the U.S. Said an American rancher's wife: "They're the most beautiful horses in the world...
...measure, introduced this spring by a coalition of environmental and labor groups, requires employers to label all toxic substances in the workplace and provide information about these chemicals to employees and community members. That bill won Senate approval, but is currently stalled in the House while moderates try to hammer out a compromise with industry, which predictably opposes the legislation. Faced with growing support for such measures, however, industry proponents figured some legislation was inevitable, and introduced a watered-down version of the proposed...
...three-story rose stucco building that once housed Ethiopia's Parliament and now serves as headquarters for the country's embryonic Communist Party, a red hammer and sickle has been painted over the finely etched imperial crest on each of the green-backed chairs. Prominent red stars dominate the revolutionary posters on the walls, and a large red-lettered slogan in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language, reads FORWARD WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS PARTY. Not far away, in a flag-bedecked square, a 16-ft.-high red billboard carries the unsmiling trinity of Marx, Engels...
...hammer and sickle and red star are backed by a formidable and growing Soviet presence in Ethiopia. Some 4,000 Soviet advisers, roughly half of whom are attached to Ethiopia's 250,000-strong army, exert a strong influence in both military matters and the running of government ministries. Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile-Mariam, 41, the U.S.-trained officer who presides over the ruling Dergue, or council, holds frequent meetings in the old Imperial Palace with Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Fomichenko. Ethiopia buys virtually all its oil from the Soviet Union, and since 1977 the Soviets have supplied the country...
...committed to Communist models of development. Hopes that Mengistu's election as chairman of the 50-member Organization of African Unity during its meeting in Addis Ababa last month might moderate his stance have already been dashed. Less than a week after his designation, Mengistu appeared under a hammer-and-sickle emblem to condemn "Western opposition to socialism" as "the main threat to world peace." It was enough to convince even those who are skeptical of the durability of the Soviet link of exactly where Mengistu intends to steer Ethiopia and, if he can manage it, the rest...