Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front and center marched the regal, khaki-clad figure of Charles de Gaulle. At his side was Queen Frederika of Greece. And on either side of them were: King Baudouin of Belgium in army khaki; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, splendid in his decorations and chartreuse sash; West Germany's President Heinrich Lübke; Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal; Korea's President-elect General Park Chung Hee. They, along with 213 other world leaders, headed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, eight blocks away...
Fresh from a state visit to King Hassan II in Rabat, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie flew to Algeria aboard the imperial Boeing 720 jet. Wearing a British field marshal's uniform, the Lion of Judah was warmly greeted by Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella, who happened to be wearing his own favorite costume, Castro-type fatigues. Other envoys and messages descended on Morocco from the Arab League, the President of the Sudan, the Redeemer of Ghana, the President of Tunisia, and the feuding rulers of Egypt and Iraq...
...statement, Vorster said NUSAS subscribes to Pan-Africanist ideals and cooperates with student organizations in Ghana, Ethiopia, and other Black African countries. He also assailed the Union for advocating complete integration--political, social, and biological. NUSAS favors integration of all education from kindergarten through college...
...summit conference on African unity in Addis Ababa last May established his position as a moderate who might bridge the communications gap between the widely divergent African factions. In his own land his tight rule is controversial, but from a pragmatic U.S. point of view it has been effective. Ethiopia is fiscally sound, is one of the few nations to repay its lend-lease obligations in full. Selassie dispatched troops to U.N. combat in both Korea and the Congo. He has eagerly accepted 244 U.S. Peace Corpsmen as schoolteachers to raise the literacy standards of his people...
...talks not only with Jack Ken nedy, but with Bobby and Teddy as well. He was even accorded a full-fledged Washington press conference. Unfortunately, he had to deal with questions just as inane as some of those Kennedy fields. Inquired one lady reporter: "How do leopard skins of Ethiopia Somalia?" compare in Selassie quality smiled with gamely, those said of there was no difference...