Word: keren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drove the rebels out of much of southern and western Eritrea. But the drive was blunted when the government troops began to battle a well-equipped 25,000-man EPLF army, which occupies the territory's central and northern plateaus. In one futile assault on Eritrean positions near Keren, a human wave of more than 6,000 Ethiopian militiamen were cut down by rebels firing captured Communist artillery. Ethiopian Strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had vowed to crush the rebels by Sept. 12, the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor Haile Selassie, ordered the execution...
While the fighting went on in the outskirts of Asmara, the Eritrean capital, the rebels were reported to have blown up an important bridge at Keren, on the road to the Sudan to the west. In a drive to cut off the road from the port city of Assab on the Red Sea, the main source of Ethiopia's oil, the guerrillas warned truck drivers: "Put your nose out of town and you will be roasted alive!" Nonetheless, government troops tried to consolidate their hold on Asmara. Refugees, many leading donkeys or pushing wheelbarrows laden with pots and pans...
...Kissinger himself always makes it clear that the necessary thrust of the White House is behind his success, but the misperception is understandable. Still another reason is that Kissinger happens to be the right man in the right place at the right time. As London Times Foreign Editor Louis Keren recently put it: "Much of the world, East as well as West, hankers for Superman. The role was thrust upon him, although presumably he did not have to be persuaded." In fact, as Kissinger readily agrees...
Indignant readers deluged the Times with letters protesting U.S. meddling. The American embassy in London, which houses the local CIA staff, hotly denied the allegation. Last week the Times printed a front-page article by Deputy Editor Louis Keren suggesting that the embassy's denial, while understandable, should not be taken too seriously; the CIA was only doing its duty "Militant trade unionists are in direct confrontation with authority," wrote Keren. "Seen from abroad, Britain could be moving into a pre-revolutionary situation." The Times and Keren were unprepared for Copeland's next bombshell. In a follow...
...Copeland, 57, as a man who has acquired some status as a CIA expert by trading on his intelligence background. He is readily accessible to journalists seeking material on the CIA. Recalls one: "Miles is the only man I know who uses the CIA as a cover." Nonetheless, Editor Keren insists: "We still believe the Times account to be correct...