Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Human Rights. Washington professed no great surprise at the near break in Ethiopian-American relations. The break had been foreshadowed in December, when the Soviet Union by all accounts agreed to supply Mengistu's regime with some $100 million in arms. As one State Department official observed, "They couldn't be taking Soviet money and keep walking around in our G.I. fatigues." Although the U.S. has a major radio relay station outside Asmara, Washington had planned to shut down the facility in September and turn its functions over to satellites...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia--The Ethiopian government yesterday closed the U.S. consulate in Eritrea province, and four other U.S. facilities in Ethiopia, expelling over 300 Americans from the country...
Continued American presence would contradict the goals of the Ethiopian socialist revolution and its non-aligned foreign policy, government officials announced...
Methodical Ruthlessness. Later reports confirmed that suspicion. Radio Ethiopia broadcast a charge by the safe Mengistu that Benti and his aides had been killed because they were secret supporters of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. The E.P.R.P. is a leftist underground group of students and businessmen trying to replace military rule with civilian government. Mengistu claimed he had discovered a 47-page master plan, belonging to Benti, that blueprinted the installation of the E.P.R.P. as a government to replace the "scientific socialism" of the military council...
...Ethiopian fans will be rooting for Miruts Yifter, 27, a potential medalist in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter races-if he has managed to learn from his past mistakes. Yifter once misjudged the distance of an international 5,000-meter race and stopped, thinking he had crossed the finish line a winner when there was still another lap to go. Before a 5,000-meter heat at Munich, a language confusion kept him from reaching the starting line, and he was disqualified...