Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meter dash and Daley Thompson took the decathlon. With 36 nations heeding President Carter's call for a boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, there was little else for the West to cheer about. Pietro Mennea, a flamboyant Italian, finished first in the 200-meter run, and Ethiopian Miruts Yifter, listed as 35 but rumored to be in his 40s, captured...
...Ethiopian rabbits made more mischief in the 5,000, taking runs at anyone with the temerity to challenge their flagship. The most elegant Alphonse and Gaston routine took place on the final backstretch when Ethiopian Mohammad Kedir, then second behind Kaarlo Maaninka of Finland, swerved to the outside so that the Shifter could rocket through for his second gold. Poor Kedir got tangled up with the pack, lost a shoe and finished dead last...
...meter races also offer a classic matchup: Lasse Viren, the Finn who won both events in 1972 and 1976, and Miruts Yifter, a fast-finishing Ethiopian who missed the 1976 Olympics due to an African boycott of the Games. Viren is entered in the 10,000 but is so far undecided about whether to run the 5,000 or the marathon...
...Brzezinski came to a head in April 1978, when the Soviets and their Cuban proxies dramatically escalated their intervention in Ethiopia. Brzezinski urged a show of force; Vance argued that it was not the right time or place to draw the line. For one thing, contended Vance, the Ethiopian government had asked for Soviet-Cuban assistance in repelling an invasion by Somalia. That made it harder to charge Moscow with aggression...
After Harvard denied tenure to Isaac--a scholar in Ethiopian language, literature and church history--in 1975, Isaac requested an EEOC investigation...