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Along Addis Ababa's "Mattress Street," brothels used to be marked with red crosses until the International Red Cross complained that too many Ethiopians were wandering into first-aid stations looking for a treat instead of a treatment...
...black Africans as barya (slaves). But when the emerging black African states began getting voice in world affairs, the Emperor started to fire off letters to nationalist politicians all over the continent, condemning imperialism and hailing the once despised barya as "our beloved black brothers." This week at Addis Ababa's new $3,000,000 Africa Hall, he plays host to the U.N.'s traveling special committee on colonialism. The Emperor hopes that such hospitality will further his campaign for African leadership. Says one Cabinet minister: "We've been free the longest. It's our heritage...
...widespread that one-third of the taxes levied never reach the national treasury. So large is the bureaucracy that two-thirds of the annual budget goes for government salaries. Annual per capita income for the country's 20 million people is only $30 ($5 if Addis Ababa is excluded), and 98% of the population are illiterate. Some 80% of the population have parasitic diseases ranging from hookworm to elephantiasis; venereal disease infects at least half the adult population, and infant mortality is nearly 40%. Malaria kills 30,000 people annually, and 40% of the country's cattle...
...Menen of Ethiopia, 71, wife of Emperor Selassie, an amiable, portly matriarch who confined her interests largely to church (Coptic) and children (three) but once freed her husband from imprisonment by crashing down Abyssinia's Royal Palace gates with a whippet tank; after a long illness; in Addis Ababa...
...steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips to Galle in Ceylon and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The fare...