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...Beulah said after the meeting, "Oh, we think he's just the sweetest little man in the world." Beyond Beulah and Blythe, the Peace Corps' 276 schoolteachers in Ethiopia have caused a remarkable change. Peace Corps teachers constitute half the faculty of every high school outside Addis Ababa. Since they bolstered Ethiopia's teaching force, in mid-1962, high school enrollment has nearly doubled-the greatest increase since the Ethiopian school system was started in 1908. "This," says Harris Wofford, corps representative for Ethiopia, "is what the Peace Corps was born for-to enable a country that...
...enlightened one. Maybe all the people in the world are asleep except you. You are awake." Awakened, Ginsberg almost immediately left South Viet Nam, commenting, "This place depresses me." >Guinea's President Sekou Toure, on the way home from the Pan-African summit conference in Addis Ababa, stopped off in Tanganyika. Arriving 20 minutes early for a private dinner at Arusha's plush Safari hotel at the foot of cloud-capped Mount Meru, Toure seemed miffed because 1) European and African guests quietly relaxing in the lobby did not "stand as a mark of respect...
...into effect when ratified by two-thirds of Africa's nations, the scheme calls for a heads-of-state gathering every year, a permanent council of ministers (with no real powers), and a permanent secretariat. Pending ratification, a provisional secretariat will be set up in Addis Ababa, to the delight of Haile Selassie, who dreams of making his ramshackle capital Africa's capital as well. Under the plan, committees would be formed to mediate intra-African disputes, promote economic and social progress, joint defense, and mount a common front against Africa's remaining vestiges of colonialism...
...Rivals. The bloody fight for Angola is the only shooting war still raging in Africa. To win it and "liberate"' the continent's biggest colonial territory, African leaders in Addis Ababa last week vociferously supported Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella's call to "establish a bond of blood" with the Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans...
...nominal leader. Andrade, who, like most of Salazar's foes, is often denounced as a Communist, is an astute politician and an able organizer. He has built a nationwide following among the mulatto elite who would be the logical leaders of independent Angola, and last week in Addis Ababa urged Africa's statesmen to help lance "the abscess of rivalry" between the two movements...