Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having the strength to penetrate all of Africa, Soviet and Chinese agents are trying to establish a beachhead in Guinea. Ethiopia and Morocco are also being probed. Peking may possibly have a long-range plan in the next two decades to export some 5,000,000 Chinese to Latin America, Cuba and North Africa as a prelude to a global revolutionary thrust...
Within the pavilions of the cathedral area are kept icons and crosses of solid gold, gold-embroidered vestments, and crowns, diadems and tiaras given to the priests by Ethiopia's rulers as ceremonial offerings for military victories or upon their accession. Hung on the limestone walls and pillars of the church are three striking Madonnas (see color) that are kept covered with canvas, except on feast days, to preserve their brilliant colors...
...renounced war "as an instrument of national policy." And in Geneva in 1932, delegates of 60 nations met in a grand-finale disarmament conference. So durable is human hope that the last surviving committee of the great 1932 conference lingered on in Geneva until 1937, after Mussolini had invaded Ethiopia, civil war had erupted in Spain, and Hitler had marched into the Rhineland...
...share. The Israelis are happy to sell out, and often wind up with a brokerage fee or a managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which will be West Africa's finest. Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, has hired Israeli engineers to build 77 miles of mountain road, and is thinking of getting Israelis to convert his slum-ridden capital, Addis Ababa, into a modern city. Israeli technicians...
...trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows. But the life is not. On the very first day out of Cape Town, one trailer landed in a ditch, and seven dropped out later. Along one rugged wasteland in southern Ethiopia the caravan lost 22 truck axles, and the passengers had to clear the trails themselves. ("Drive a mile," said one lady's diary, "work two hours on the road . . . Everyone very tired...