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Following a visit to Egypt by President Nixon, a treaty is signed between the two countries. The United States agree to provide Egypt with knowledge of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Somali joins the Arab League.
Indira Gandhi authorises the atomic bomb explosion test of a plutonium implosion bomb under the Rajasthan desert. The United States responds by imposing economic sanctions on India.
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is ousted by an army coup, led by Major Mengistu Haile Mariam. The Provisional Military Administrative Council, or Derg, run the country, with Mingistu as chairman. They establish Ethiopia as a socialist state.
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to limit their nuclear arsenals. Each side agrees to have no more than 2,400 strategic launchers.
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