Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie pleaded gallantly but in vain for League of Nations help against the invading troops of Benito Mussolini in 1936, the wiry little Lion of Judah won the affection of the U.S. That continuing affection was displayed throughout the Emperor's official state visit to the U.S. last week. He was applauded and pursued by an unusually spirited noontime crowd of parade watchers in Washington, by delegates to the U.N. in New York, by autograph seekers along lower Broadway. In Philadelphia, even union pickets on strike at a hotel cheered when he strode...
Since there are no weighty differences between the U.S. and Ethiopia, the glittering round of gold-plate lunches, dinners and receptions thrown by official Washington were full of sentiment. Said President Kennedy in a dinner toast: "There is really no comparable figure in the world who occupied and held the attention and the imagination of almost all free countries in the mid-'30s and still could in the summer of 1963 in his own capital dominate the affairs of his continent...
Responded the Emperor: "I recall with most poignant emotion the moral support that Ethiopia received from the U.S. in the dark hour when my country was ravished by fascism 27 years...
...Reader Fargher is right, the show's catalog is wrong. Ge'ez is to Amharic, the language of modern Ethiopia, what Latin is to English...
Until last month, S.A.A.'s Boeing 707 jets operated two efficient routes between Johannesburg and Europe-one along Africa's east fringe, via Nairobi, Kenya; the other almost due north via Brazzaville, in the once-French Congo. Trouble began when, implementing the Addis Ababa agreement, Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia and Sudan barred South African aircraft from overflying their territories. S.A.A. rerouted all its flights over Libya. But then Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which...