Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race, there was Clarke striding rhythmically, effortlessly around the track, burning out his challengers. With a badly twisted ankle, Gerry Lindgren was struggling just to finish, and the crowd in National Stadium waited patiently for Clarke to shake the other also-rans: Tunisia's little Mohamed Gamoudi, Ethiopia's Mamo Wolde-and Billy Mills. But on and on they went, matching stride for stride, lapping stragglers, jockeying for position. Clarke was in front going into the final lap. Incredibly, Mills was right behind, and so were the other two unknowns...
...world champion, Rabbi Yihie Alsheich of Jerusalem. A team of 15 linguists then put the questions, all taken from the Old Testament, into the ten languages spoken by the contestants. Toughest problem: phrasing the questions in Amharic for Begalech Gabre, a beautiful 18-year-old girl from Ethiopia, who entered the contest in hopes of getting a scholarship to a Jerusalem medical school...
...membership of the Committee reflects the realities of African politics. Tanganyika and the Congo were chosen undoubtedly because of their geographical proximity to southern Africa, while the three countries having the largest armies, Algeria, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Republic, also happen to be members...
...Ethiopian Students Committee has begun a drive that will eventually encompass almost every American university to raise money for the National Literacy Campaign presently being conducted in Ethiopia. The African country has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world...
...Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than 5,000 members...