Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gamal Abdel Nasser's shiny new airport swooped jet after jet, bearing every sort of African leader from emperor to president to tribal chief. They were gathering for the second annual "summit" of the fledgling Organization of African Unity founded by His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia a little over a year...
...year, giving the group as a whole less purchasing power than New York State. Yet for all its obstacles, the O.A.U. in its short lifetime has a number of successes to its credit. It skill fully mediated the Algerian-Moroccan border war and cooled down the fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia on Africa's hot, dry eastern horn. Somalia likewise stopped its border skirmishing with Kenya-officially at least-and is now negotiating both disputes under O.A.U. auspices...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross." part one of an award-winning two-part report. Repeat...
Response to Challenge. Rising from its twin sources in Ethiopia and East Africa, the longest river in the world begins its course 4,150 miles from the sea. Its longest leg, called the White Nile, pours out of Lake Victoria through Uganda's Owen Falls Dam, drops swiftly to the Sudan, where it snarls itself in the tangled vegetation of the Sudd-50,000 sq. mi. of swamp, amidst whose 14-ft.-papyrus thickets and convoluted blue ambatch flowers the river loses half its water in evaporation and drainage. The Blue Nile dashes headlong down the rain-wreathed mountains...
...with slow-motion photography and telescopic lenses that reveal an athlete's face in stunning closeup, the moment of truth is seized; an Italian cyclist, narrowly losing one contest, bursts into tears; the barefoot Bikila Abebe sprints through torchlit Roman streets to win the 26-mile marathon and Ethiopia's first Olympic gold medal; U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson consolingly embraces his close friend and runner-up, Taiwan's C. K. Yang. Poignant drama erupts when a Russian pole vaulter disastrously breaks his ankle. There is comedy, too, as a narrator dryly remarks of Britain...