Word: mogadishu
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...hardly a dignified leavetaking. A gaggle of Russians, the first of many such groups to run the same gauntlet last week, gathered in the hot, squalid main hall of Mogadishu airport to await an Aeroflot flight to Aden. Somali customs officials, who normally give departing passengers a bored wave-through, set upon the sweating travelers with malicious grins, demanding that they open every suitcase for an item-by-item inspection. At the airport bar, quarrels broke out as the bartender doubled the price of Cokes. A Western TV cameraman recording the pandemonium took an elbow in the ribs from...
...they asked the Russians to vacate the Soviet-built naval base at the Somali port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. Soviet military and civilian advisers were ordered to get out of the country on a week's notice, leaving just seven U.S.S.R. embassy employees in Mogadishu-the exact size of the Somali embassy staff in Moscow. Simultaneously, the Somalis broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...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...