Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Issacs is suing Harvard for discrimination, alleging that he was passed over for tenure in Afro-Am in 1975 because he is Ethiopian and Black. Harvard maintains that the department had no need for a specialist in his field, African religions and languages...
East German Communist Party Boss. Erich Honecker may have canceled his trip to West Germany, but last week he made it to Addis Ababa, where the flag flying over Revolution Square had more comforting look: red and emblazoned with the hammer and sickle. Honecker was in the Ethiopian capital with Soviet Politburo Member Grigory Romanov at a three-hour parade to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the military coup that overthrew former Emperor Haile Selassie. Dominating the scene was a towering portrait of Ethiopian Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, 43, the U.S.-trained soldier who had just been chosen...
...enemy of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, as the prime suspect. Central to this view is the fact that a Libyan cargo ship, the Ghat, entered the northern end of the canal on July 6, then traveled southward through the canal and the Gulf of Suez to the Ethiopian port of Assab on the Red Sea, where it unloaded its cargo and eventually headed back toward the canal. According to Egyptian officials, that round trip should have taken the Ghat about eight days. In fact, it took 15 days. Long before the Ghat left the canal on its northward...
Independence, paradoxically, has not freed most of Africa from the yoke of foreign domination and meddling. Cuban soldiers act as proxies for the Soviet Union in Angola and Ethiopia; East German military advisers are present in Mozambique and Ethiopia. The regime of Ethiopian Chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam has paid homage to Moscow by erecting a statue of Lenin in Addis Ababa. Mengistu allows the Soviets to maintain a naval base on the Dahlak Islands in the Red Sea. Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, often with Moscow's backing, has emerged as the continent's chief troublemaker. Gaddafi...
...players were in by making them run four miles and swim two on the first day of practice. "I practically sprinted the whole first four miles and left everybody in the dust," he recalls. "Assistant Coach Peter Lansbury yelled, 'Wow, did you see Yifter run?' in reference to the Ethiopian sprinter Miruts Yifter who won the 5000 and 10,000 meters in the Olympics that summer. He is a small, dark-complexioned guy, too. to this day half the people I know introduce me as Yifter...