Word: hammerism
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...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...
...blazing hammer and sickle on a hillside outside of the city signaled that the attacks were the work of an increasingly active band of guerrillas who call themselves Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Last week Belaúnde reluctantly cracked down. For the first time since his democratically elected government took power in 1980 after twelve years of military dictatorship, Belaúnde, 69, declared a 60-day national state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and giving police broad powers to seize suspected guerrillas for up to ten days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although...
...second oldest of the still youthful Islanders, a last remnant of the expansion draft that stocked the franchise eleven years ago. He can recall mean times and does so nostalgically. "One problem with playing on a winner," sighs Smith, "is you can't go out and just hammer somebody. It might cost you the game." Nevertheless, he went out and just hammered Gretzky in Game 2, which the Islanders won 6-3. There followed a bit of spearing and slashing, a good deal of cursing and crying, and two more New York victories, 5-1 and 4-2. This...