Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schweitzer last June, Mark still could not go home. The 20-year-old youth had become interested in the World Federalists and decided he wanted to see more of the young nations of Africa. He headed south toward the Congo, planning to cross the continent to Kenya and Ethiopia, then make his way to Israel before returning to the U.S. He made his own way by hitching rides on passing trucks or jeeps, even in boxcars on the occasional trains that passed; often he slept in the mud huts of natives he had befriended along the route, shared their rude...
...abstain on issues tied closely to the cold war. When the Soviet Union moved to debate the flights of the U-2 and RB-47, the U.S. won the balloting 54 to 10, but one third of the U.N. membership abstained, including countries generally considered pro-Western (Austria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia...
...wined and dined by East and West, nattered with offers of financial aid, wooed with the promise of technicians, state visits and cultural exchanges. When Dwight Eisenhower presided in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Tower, his guests included Cabinet ministers from such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ethiopia. When tiny Togo gave a cocktail party at the Plaza Hotel, who should pop in but pudgy Nikita Khrushchev, all smiles. Both dazed and gratified, Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio offered the understatement of the week by observing that Khrushchev is a "very calm man" to whom...
Died. E. (for Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst, 78, fire-breathing feminist and daughter of Britain's pioneering Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst; of a heart attack; in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Along with her mother and late sister Christabel, Sylvia invoked violence in the fight for women's suffrage between 1903 and 1918, led her militant followers in rock-tossing sorties against the Houses of Parliament, assaults upon 10 Downing Street. She landed in prison at least 15 times, went on hunger strikes to get out, promptly got tossed back into a cell as soon as her strength returned. After Britain...
...Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building him a big new radio station. Ethiopia's proud Haile Selassie is well nigh awash with Soviet and Czech financial credits and, inevitably with hundreds of Red technicians...