Word: mogadishu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years that the Kremlin, for all its protestations of good intentions toward Somalia, was forging new ties with Addis Ababa. Then war broke out in Ethiopia's Ogaden desert last July between Ethiopian forces and the ethnic Somalis who live there; the insurgents are backed and armed by Mogadishu. After that, the Somalis quickly realized that, as one official puts it, "our brothers were being killed by bullets supplied by the people who said they were our friends...
...almost ten times as populous as Somalia and whose ancient feudal society might prove more receptive to Soviet socialism over the long run than Muslim Somalia had been. Many observers think Moscow diplomats genuinely believed they could continue to have it two ways: maintaining close ties with both Mogadishu and Addis Ababa while tilting toward Ethiopia in the current...
...West, for its part, expects to form closer but hardly client-style ties to Somalia. The U.S. is ready to resume economic assistance, after a hiatus of six years, at the level of about $10 million a year. West Germany, grateful for Somalia's help in its Mogadishu skyjacking rescue operation last month, will provide $17 million over the next 14 months. But neither the U.S. nor any other Western country is anxious to lavish much military aid on Somalia while it is still at odds with Ethiopia...
...moment, the Ogaden war remains a stalemate, with Somali forces holding most of the disputed territory and maintaining pressure on the strategic Ethiopian-held towns of Harar and Dire Dawa. Most diplomatic sources in Mogadishu believe, however, that when new shipments of heavy Soviet military equipment already in Ethiopia begin to show up in the field, the tide of battle could well turn against the Somalis...
That grim message was delivered to Bonn news agencies after three convicted members of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang committed suicide last month in their prison cells following West Germany's antiterrorist raid at Mogadishu. As the deadline arrived last week, West Germany's national airline responded with a policy of saturation security for its 411 daily scheduled flights worldwide. Fortunately, as the first tense days came and went, there were no incidents more serious than flight delays of up to 20 minutes caused by Lufthansa's preboarding passenger inspections. Later, a second letter, delivered to news...