Diplomats told to go
NZPA-Reuter Nairobi Ethiopia’s Marxist Government yesterday ordered , half the staff of the French Embassy to leave the country within 48 hours, the officia’l Ethiopian News Agency has reported. The decision came after a speech by a member of the ruling military council accusing France of backing guerrillas fighting for the independence of the Red Sea province of Eritrea. Captain : Fikre Selassie Wogderess said on Addis Abba Radio that France was guilty of “Brazen . interference” in Ehtiopian affairs. The agency said Ethiopia took offence to a dispatch by the governing French Socialist Party which condemned an Ethiopian Government offensive on guerrillas fighting for the independence of Eritrea.
It was not. clear who the dispatch had been destined for and who had signed it.
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