Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every meeting of every conference is filled to the brim with endless, multilingual talk. Only rarely does the Palais, one of the world's largest office buildings, come to life with such dramatic moments as Emperor Haile Selassie's moving speech against Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, or the sight of French Premier Pierre Mendès-France, watch in hand, signing at 4 a.m. the accord ending the Indo-China war to meet the deadline he had set himself on taking office...
...behold, Africa began sprouting a whole bunch of brand-new nations. So off he went to Africa. In Morocco he paused to express a variety of opinions. "Egypt," said the segregationist Senator, "hasn't achieved anything great since the Pharaohs began practicing desegregation with their slaves . . . Ethiopia would have nothing if it weren't for the Italians. Africans will probably get somewhere some day, but it'll take time . . . The only black man I know of with the stuff it takes to be a United States Senator was Booker T. Washington, but he had a white mother...
Uganda declared Ellender a prohibited immigrant. So did Tanganyika and Ethiopia (Ellender hadn't planned to go to Ethiopia this trip anyhow). Kenya's government protested to President Kennedy...
...industries in labor-surfeited Hong Kong. They helped Refugee Cotton Magnate Y. C. Wong get started, and they were among the founders of the five-year-old Hong Kong Carpet Manufacturing Co., whose customers include New York's Nelson Rockefeller and the royal families of Britain, Thailand and Ethiopia...
...Best of Enemies. The funny story of a phony war in Ethiopia, starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi...