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...EMPERORS are popularly thought to dwell in gilded palaces, but one of the world's few surviving emperors has lived for the past 15 years in a concrete air-raid shelter. See FOREIGN NEWS, Emperor's Year...
...degrees of freedom and pressure, and often nations that subdue their own' press will allow foreign correspondents free passage-while censoring their findings in incoming papers and magazines. Last week, for example, Ethiopia, annoyed by factual accounts in U.S. magazines of December's short-lived revolt against Emperor Haile Selassie, turned back the magazines at customs...
...Hunt. Would the revolt, and fear of worse to come, lead to any changes in Haile Selassie's feudal monarchy? "None at all," said the durable Emperor. But he seemed suddenly old, tired, and sad. Grimly his troops hunted through the nearby hills for the two chief leaders of the revolt-a Columbia University-educated provincial governor named Germame Newaye and his brother Brigadier General Mengistu Newaye, Commander of the Imperial Guard...
Other captured rebel officers, some of them barefoot, stood in line at the palace to plead with the Emperor for their lives. Students at the University College of Addis Ababa, who had come out in support of the rebels, learned that they could not go back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...
Graves's short sheaf of stories tells the principal doings of the Olympians from the time Zeus seized power from Cronus (Saturn), son of Mother Earth, to the end of their reign. The author sets this date neatly at A.D. 363, the year in which the last Roman emperor to believe in the Olympians, Julian of Constantinople, was killed in battle. There are a lot of gods to discuss, and the result is that such notable heroes as Achilles and Ajax are ignored, and Odysseus, Paris and Helen are merely mentioned...