Word: eritreans
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...arms, largely, he said, because the Soviets were gaining alarming influence in neighboring Somalia and the Sudan. Selassie said little of the domestic unrest that forced him to close the national university and most high schools last month. He was equally bland about the activities of the Damascus-based Eritrean Liberation Front, which is fighting to establish a separate Eritrean state in northern Ethiopia. In the past six months, the front has hijacked three Ethiopian Airlines planes and kidnaped (briefly) the U.S. consul general in the northern city of Asmara...