Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent times, only eight of the world's 120 currencies (those of the U.S., Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Panama and El Salvador) have survived the 23 years since the end of World War II without a formal devaluation, according to Manhattan Currency Expert Franz Pick. Since Jan. 1, 1949, Chile has devalued 46 times, Brazil 32, Uruguay 18, South Korea 17. The U.S.S.R. has sliced the value of its ruble three times since World War II - not because of external pressures but to reduce domestic purchasing power...
Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, Chile, China, Colom bia, Congo, Congo (Brazzaville), Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dahomey, Den mark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, West Ger many, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland...
Egal, a portly, fast-talking merchant's son who was educated in Britain, has called a halt to the guerrilla war that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with...
...Olympic team. A factor that no doubt will figure in his campaign emerged last week when the International Olympic Committee agreed to reinstate South Africa in the 1968 Olympics, after having banned it from Tokyo in 1964. The South Africans now promise to field a completely integrated team. Nevertheless, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Algeria, Uganda, Mali and Ghana immediately announced their withdrawal from the Games...
These functions could be planned and assigned by a special International Commission, perhaps under the aegis of the United Nations, utilizing contributions from nations like Ireland, Sweden, and Ethiopia with experience in peace-keeping functions as well as the International Control Commission--beefed up and with greater authority, equipment, and without a paralyzing veto system...