The body type of the classic East African distance runner like marathon gold medal winner Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda and the Kenyans and Ethiopians who followed just behind were forged by nature in the Rift Valley and highlands of eastern Africa.
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El Guerrouj, however, played the perfect waiting game under the stadium floodlights, allowing the Ethiopians and Kenyans to dictate the early pace as the race surged and slowed.
Most believe the government has taken an uncompromising and unrelenting approach and many Ethiopians say the government needs to meet the students halfway before the situation escalates beyond all control.
Dark rumours are circulating that the Malaysians and Ethiopians will try to block any agreement favourable to America in retaliation for that country's criticism of their policies on such things as the clear-cutting of forests.
Kenyans and Ethiopians have won the men's race 23 times in the past 25 years, and on the women's side they have won 14 of the last 16 titles.
But after two years of occupation the Ethiopians, harassed and bruised, felt obliged to leave.
The Ethiopians trade with Somaliland and use its port of Berbera but hold back from endorsing full independence.
By then, the Ethiopians will have tried to reach Asmara and the Eritreans, who are at their fiercest when cornered, will have done their best to stop them.
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But the normally fractious Ethiopians have now united around him, and his party is likely to have done well at this week's election.
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The Ethiopians quickly occupied Mogadishu but failed to pacify much of central and southern Somalia.
In September, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians from their vast and far-flung diaspora are expected to visit their homeland to celebrate the coming of the third Christian millennium, according to their ancient church's calendar.
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The Ethiopians, who led the war against the Islamists, say the prisoners were not held secretly and that they had consular and legal representation.
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