Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decades, the "empire" of Ethiopia has really been nothing more than a collection of disparate feuding fiefdoms held together by the military power of deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and the aristocratic Amhara tribe of the Central Highlands. Last week, as fighting flared across the northern province of Eritrea, the old empire appeared to be on the verge of civil war and perhaps of actual disintegration...
...entirely different scale. They are growing on average two and a half per cent a year, which works out to twelve times a century, if that kind of growth can keep up. Brazil adds more people to the world each year than Russia and Great Britain put together; Ethiopia, more than France, Italy, West Germany and the Philippines...
...land reform; now the rent goes to the state instead of the hated landowner. In fact, under the state socialism proclaimed by the Dergue, peasants will never have a chance to acquire land of their own. Last week a decree imposed state control over virtually all the land in Ethiopia, and nationalization of banks and insurance companies seemed only a prelude to widespread takeovers of private commerce and industry as well...
...Dergue's motto-"Ethiopia First"-has been transformed into a growing campaign against all things foreign, and the country's 35,000 foreign residents are noticeably uneasy. Newspaper editorials regularly attack alien imports and ideologies. Last week the state-owned television station was ordered to stop showing Bonanza reruns in favor of "enlightening documentaries" made in China. Foreign women are reluctant to go shopping alone for fear of being jostled, sworn at or spat upon. Beggars have grown more surly and muggings have increased, and certain areas of Addis Ababa have informally been placed off limits...
...first episode of this ambitious series, Jacob Bronowski's "personal view" of the development of civilization, carries the gloomy foreboding that the viewer may be in for a three-month brush-up course in anthropology-no bad thing, perhaps, but not an exciting prospect either. Bronowski in Ethiopia's Omo Valley musing over the cranial capacity of our earliest ancestors, Bronowski reflecting on the first stirrings of the artistic impulse before the cave paintings at Altamira -it is all ground that other popularizers have covered. Though he makes an engagingly earnest guide, other cultured minds have already taken...