Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be difficult to reconcile this pledge with Moscow's ferrying of 6,000 Cuban troops to Angola in 1975 and its shipment of thousands of military "advisers" and enormous quantities of weapons to Ethiopia three years later. During the final months of the Shah's reign in Iran, moreover, Persian-language broadcasts beamed at Iran from inside the U.S.S.R. were inflaming an already tense situation by charging, among other things, that "the dangers facing the Iranian people are coming" from...