Word: emperor
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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...
...Coptic Christian Ethiopia, only an acknowledged descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba would be accepted as a proper ruler by the 90% illiterate populace. After nervous speculation, the plotters approached Crown Prince Asfa Wassan himself, knowing that father and son have disliked each other for years. The Emperor had always favored a younger son Prince Makonnen (who was killed in an automobile accident three years ago), made it obvious that he considered Asfa Wassan none too bright, often subjected him to public humiliation. When Asfa Wassan wishes to speak to his father, he must first grovel with...
...Emperor Constantine. disturbed because the Arian heresy had started a squabble among his bishops that threatened the internal and external security of the Roman world, summoned the Council of Nicaea, banged episcopal heads together until the bishops agreed on the Nicene Creed, a concise statement of belief that runs in the Latin version to only 162 words, yet managed to postpone religious schism for 700 years...
Basic Catholic doctrine on the ordering of society was laid down by Pope Gelasius I in a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right-the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power." This, says Father Murray, established a "freedom of the church" in the spiritual sphere that served to limit the power of government on the one hand, and on the other brought the moral consensus of the people to bear upon the King...
Thomson also announced an impending expansion of his beachhead in Africa, where he recently bought a half interest in a Nigerian newspaper chain. Provided he gets a go-ahead from Emperor Haile Selassie ("who seemed very responsive"), Thomson intends to establish an Ethiopian news agency and two Ethiopian dailies-one in English and one in Amharic. And in partnership with the youthful Aga Khan, he is laying plans for five new papers in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika...