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Isolated Addis Ababa seemed an odd place for the hot-eyed young nationalists to hold their big conference of independent African states. Many were irked at having to bow and scrape before their host, Emperor Haile Selassie, whose regime is one of Africa's most authoritarian. But the Lion of Judah had worked hard to make his capital presentable. The girls who staff the city's 5,000 bordellos were ordered not to call to passing delegates. Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep...
...ADDIS ABABA HILTON will be built in the Ethiopian capital for government and operated by Hilton ho tels. Air-conditioned 250-room hotel will cost $4,900,000, is scheduled for completion...
...bankers and executives. He logs well over 150 hours of air travel a year, on a recent visit to the Middle East dined with Qatar's Sheik Ahmed (he thoughtfully brought along a rocking horse for the sheik's son), conferred with Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, was received by the Prime Minister of the Sudan. Says Managing Director Fred Stephens: "You always wonder what kind of visa John will pull out of his pocket...
...Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, has hired Israeli engineers to build 77 miles of mountain road, and is thinking of getting Israelis to convert his slum-ridden capital, Addis Ababa, into a modern city. Israeli technicians are employed by many African nations to staff hospitals, train military forces, and produce experimental crops...
...come Africans will still get their best higher education overseas-if they can win scholarships and raise travel and pocket money. But alternatives are developing. Last year Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie set up a 200-scholarship program for all Africans at the University College of Addis Ababa (enrollment...