Word: belai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residents said their lock had been hard to turn and generally temperamental since the beginning of the year. "Locking and unlocking it has always been difficult." said Yared Belai '92. "I guess it finally just decided to to lock itself permanently; unfortunately we were all still inside...
Some Mason graduate have had turbulent careers. Belai Abai, former minister of land reform in Ethiopia, was jailed when President Haile Selassie was overthrown in the mid-1970s. Abai's services were so valuable, however, that the new government sent a car and driver to take him from prison to his office every day. A. M. A. Mulith became minister of finance in Bangladesh after last month's coup. Sergio Bitar lost his job as minister of mines in Chile when the government of Salvadore Allende was toppled...
...Belai Abai, former minister of land reform in Ethiopia, added that "Countries receive advice from Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge and they follow it and somehow things just don't work...
...Belai Tewolde, a member of the Association of Eritrean Students, also discussed neo-colonialism and Pan-Africanism in the Eritrean struggle with Ethiopia