Word: mengesha
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Casting the role of the black slave Jim required more ingenuity. Govorukhin searched the universities for likely black students from Ethiopia, Angola or Mozambique. He finally selected an Ethiopian named Behailu Mengesha, who was studying at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University. Mengesha, who is now back home in Ethiopia, resisted pressures from friends, who advised him that playing the role of a slave would be demeaning...
General Negategegne, formerly on the side of the ruling military council, has defected and joined forces with Ras Mengesha Seyoum, the deposed governor of Tigre province, which adjoins Eritrea. Mengesha, a distant relative of Haile Selassie, has an armed band of more than 4,000 peasants. Near Menz, some 85 miles north of the capital, two other aristocratic revolutionaries, Merid and Mesfin Biru, recently wiped out a government battalion...
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