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...take a case to come to trial. Too often the problem is delay in the law's enforcement-the interminable minutes it can take to reach the police. In an age of computers and digit dialing, it may be easier to phone "Hiya" to a pal in Addis Ababa than to call "Help" to a cop a few blocks away...
...solution was to call a special meeting of the Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...speeded up the art of assignation in a way that would have dazzled the oldtime long-distance lovers; in the time an older generation took to get to Atlantic City or Brighton, their descendants are making it to Athens or Addis Ababa. In fact, a man and his mistress no longer need live in the same city, when they can arrange their meetings a few thousand miles away from either of them...
...agreement called for a neutral, demilitarized zone along the disputed border, without specifying the lines to which Moroccan and Algerian troops should withdraw. The foreign ministers of the 32-nation Organization of African Unity, set up last spring at Addis Ababa, were to arbitrate the entire border issue, but their recommendations would not be binding. The Algerians later claimed that the agreement called for the Moroccans to evacuate the two small desert oases where the fighting began; the Moroccans hotly denied...
...such matters Selassie is in a position to speak for much of Africa. His effective leadership as honorary president of the summit conference on African unity in Addis Ababa last May established his position as a moderate who might bridge the communications gap between the widely divergent African factions. In his own land his tight rule is controversial, but from a pragmatic U.S. point of view it has been effective. Ethiopia is fiscally sound, is one of the few nations to repay its lend-lease obligations in full. Selassie dispatched troops to U.N. combat in both Korea and the Congo...