Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mussolini's crack troops swept through Ethiopia in 1936, they plundered the royal palaces and carted many of the nation's treasures back to Rome. Only now is one of the items on its way back to Addis Ababa, the magnificent cast-iron statue of the Lion of Judah. Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved...
California. Alan Cranston shaped his liberal leanings at the front, reporting on the activities of Mussolini's legions in Ethiopia. After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
...Americans dominated track and field, winning 15 events, as 15 world records were broken and two others tied. Curiously, the stiffest competition came not from the Russians, who proved unaccountably weak, but from three African nations-Kenya, Ethiopia and Tunisia-which among them won every running event from the 1,500 meters to the traditional 26-mile 385-yd. Greek marathon. Kansas' Jim Ryun, the 1,500-meter world record holder, could only moan, "My God, how it hurts," after losing to Kipchoge Keino, who ran it in 3 min. 34.9 sec.-second fastest time ever recorded...
...Ivory Coast, Nationalist Chinese experts are helping African farmers boost rice production. In Ethiopia and Chad, Chinese veterinarians are advising farmers. In Rwanda, local artisans are using techniques taught them by Chinese jade and ivory carvers. And in South Viet Nam, clerks from Taipei's efficient post office are trying to unsnarl the postal and communications snafus of the war-torn country...
Taiwan's aid program in Africa, where Vanguard concentrates its efforts, is impartial enough to include a nation like Ethiopia, which votes for Peking in the U.N. It thus serves as an advertisement to countries still diplomatically uncommitted. Several countries have recognized Taipei after receiving technical advice; last week Vice Foreign Minister Yang Hsi-kung wound up his 22nd tour of the continent, bringing back diplomatic recognition from Gambia and newly independent Swaziland, and new cultural and economic agreements with four other African nations. So far, Taipei leads Peking 20 to 13 in the battle for recognition by African...