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Arriving somewhat belatedly on the scene last week, 50 foreign newsmen trooped past a pair of gazelles and a frolicsome antelope on the gracious lawns of bullet-pocked Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa. Inside, they learned from Emperor Haile Selassie (the Elect of God, the Lion of Judah, etc.) the official story on the army revolt that had bloodied the capital city just a few days before. The attempted coup, said the Emperor, had been the work of a "small, isolated group of officers." According to Haile Selassie, the rebels' own proclamations demanding an end to oppression and poverty...
Massacre. The revolt, timed to coincide with Haile Selassie's state visit to Brazil, had indeed been crushed-but at a far higher cost than the outside world had guessed. At least 325 persons were dead. The gates at the Palace of the Prince of Paradise, the Emperor's main residence, were a mass of twisted iron. Downtown hotels and office buildings were agape with shell holes where, at the height of the rebellion, the loyal 1st Division had fought a pitched battle with 4,500 rebel palace guardsmen. The loyalists won the battle and followed...
...taken on the dangerous task of serving as messenger between the two sides. Just before the assault, Richards had arrived at the palace bearing a letter from a loyalist general. While Rebel "Premier" Ras Imru (who was forgiven for his role in the revolt last week by the Emperor on the grounds that he had acted "under duress") was scribbling his reply, loyalist tanks came charging through the palace gates. Richards scampered out a window in the nick of time-"it was the nearest available exit." Another U.S. official in a tight spot was Mrs. Oswald B. Lord of Minneapolis...
...state socialism," it is in fact still absolute monarchy. To secure even the smallest government post, the applicant must go through the ritual of feet mahswagaht, which means "making one's face apparent." Each morning, the applicant lines up in front of the palace and waits for the Emperor to walk past, in hope of catching the royal eye. Eventually, if lucky, he gets an audience where, with his face pressed to the floor, he blurts out his qualifications and accepts whatever favor the Emperor is in the mood to dispense. The Emperor's powerful ally...
...give the church traditional richness and warmth of color. In searching for the most modern solution, he has lately returned to the earliest Christian prototypes: Portsmouth Priory's Church of St. Gregory the Great repeats in its octagonal plan Ravenna's San Vitale, founded by the Emperor Justinian...