Word: tanzania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among African prostitutes in the late 1970s, at about the same time it first appeared among Americans and Haitians. The disease has now spread to some 30 African countries, mostly in the so-called AIDS belt -- the string of central and east African countries that include Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zambia. Medical researchers caution that most AIDS studies done so far in Africa are spotty and preliminary. But none doubt that AIDS is both widespread and running out of control...
...from North Carolina, would be named Ambassador to Pretoria. "For the first time in U.S.-South Africa relations, a black is being given serious consideration for the post," said a Washington- based South Africa specialist. The other top candidate is Richard Viets, a career diplomat and former Ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan...
...high-tech 10,000-acre farm on which they grow food to feed their forces. Meanwhile, an estimated 10,000 fighters are trained, apparently by East German and other advisers, in northern Angola. For their ideological education, the rebels go to the Marxist-leaning Solomon Mahlangu College in Tanzania...
Museveni, who had studied economics and politics at the University of Dar es Salaam, returned in exile to Tanzania during the Amin era. He came back to serve as Defense Minister following Amin's fall but withdrew into the bush five years ago, when Obote won an election that was widely regarded as rigged. There, Museveni says, he founded his National Resistance Army with just 27 men and rifles. Since then, his forces have grown to 8,500 well-armed soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin...
...accord in which he agreed to dismantle his troops and become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the rebel leader, who now claims he was forced to sign the peace treaty under "great external pressure" from Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, never put into effect the terms of the agreement. Instead, he returned to his stronghold in the south of Uganda and, a month later, mounted his successful assault on Kampala...