Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, about 625 miles north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which since the mid-1960s has been fighting a slow-motion guerrilla...
...Lord Horn,' she said, 'I wish I had gone to the City, when-when people still could...
...shadow,' Horn said, 'I saw the bright shadow of the King,' but the word was feminine so that it must mean the Queen or the Mother; and none of the words he spoke meant anything, and she understood them as she had never understood anything in her life. His eyes that looked always from a distance were on hers. If I ... touch him I will see clearly, she thought. The screen will be gone and I will stand both there and here. But in that knowledge I am destroyed...
...Horn's grey eyes said gently, Do not touch me, child...
...Soviets and other socialist countries profess to think that the Soviet military presence in, say, the Horn of Africa, is not a threat to peace...