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Dispensing gold coins and handing out $200 tips, Emperor Haile Selassie was enjoying himself in imperial fashion on a state visit to Brazil when a ham radio operator in Addis Ababa flashed the bad news. "Calling everybody, calling everybody! Ethiopia is in a critical state following a coup d'état." Glumly, the Emperor lunched in his Sāo Paulo hotel room on lobster thermidor, stared out the window and pondered the unkindest cut of all. The revolt had apparently been led by his own son and heir, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 44. By that night the Lion...
Died. E. (for Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst, 78, fire-breathing feminist and daughter of Britain's pioneering Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst; of a heart attack; in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Along with her mother and late sister Christabel, Sylvia invoked violence in the fight for women's suffrage between 1903 and 1918, led her militant followers in rock-tossing sorties against the Houses of Parliament, assaults upon 10 Downing Street. She landed in prison at least 15 times, went on hunger strikes to get out, promptly got tossed back into a cell as soon as her strength returned. After Britain...
...Sweden stopped buying South African fruit, and Lectrolite Products Ltd., big South African exporter of auto spare parts, fortnight ago advised the government export-promotion board that its products are now taboo in nine nations. Three weeks ago the delegates to the conference of African independent states at Addis Ababa voted unanimously to urge all emerging black governments to ban South African goods. The Nigerian government has already served notice that beginning next Oct. 1-its day of independence-no South African Airways planes will be permitted to land at Nigeria's big international airport at Kano...
...Dreaming? The earnest delegates had come to discuss solidarity among the emerging states of Africa. But from the very first session in Addis Ababa's modern, glass-roofed Parliament Hall, the angry squabbling showed that the fond dream of unity was still a myth. Nigeria's Maitama Sule attacked Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of himself as the leader of a united Africa. "If anyone makes the mistake of feeling he is a messiah who had a mission to lead Africa," cried Sule, "the whole purpose of Pan-Africanism will be defeated. Hitler thought...
...supposed to set. The holy city of Aksum, spiritual capital of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, was once a flourishing market on the trade routes of Greece and Rome, is now reduced to a clutter of huts and crumbling relics in the mountains 350 miles north of Addis Ababa. Yet in Aksum, Ethiopians believe, Sheba once reigned, and in Aksum for nearly 3,000 years Abyssinian kings and rulers of the ancient kingdom of Aksum were crowned...