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...announcements crackling over Radio Ethiopia last week were terse -and chilling. A mid-morning Shootout had taken place at the columned palace, once the residence of Emperor Haile Selassie and since 1974 occupied by the Dergue, the committee of army officers that overthrew the legendary lion. The shooting was shortly followed by an announcement of the execution of Brigadier General Teferi Benti, 55, Ethiopia's chief of state, and eight of his supporters in the Dergue. Significantly, the broadcasts took pains to mention that the two most powerful members of the Dergue, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and Lieut...
Methodical Ruthlessness. Later reports confirmed that suspicion. Radio Ethiopia broadcast a charge by the safe Mengistu that Benti and his aides had been killed because they were secret supporters of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. The E.P.R.P. is a leftist underground group of students and businessmen trying to replace military rule with civilian government. Mengistu claimed he had discovered a 47-page master plan, belonging to Benti, that blueprinted the installation of the E.P.R.P. as a government to replace the "scientific socialism" of the military council...
...League of Nations Affairs at 37 and Foreign Secretary less than a year later. As Foreign Secretary from 1935 to 1938, he raced to get ahead of the swiftly moving events in a radically changing Europe: the resurgence of Germany under Hitler, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and the Spanish civil...
...middle-class life from 1890 to 1924 with photographs made from Smith's original glass plates. The museum has just recently opened a shop, which is the only place besides the U.N. where you can get hand-made Rastafarian dolls from Jamaica. It also has jewelry and baskets from Ethiopia, Jamaica and the Carolina See Islands. The shop is at 719 Tremont Street (Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.). Call before you go because the museum is not always open during its hours...
...suffered many setbacks. After a major outbreak in India as late as 1974, some people despaired of ever freeing the subcontinent of smallpox. In East Africa last August, Henderson and his colleagues thought that they had tracked down the last few pockets of the disease in isolated areas of Ethiopia. Then just as they were ready to announce the end of smallpox, they learned of several new cases among nomads in neighboring Somalia. The most recent victim is a 20-year-old woman named Maryam Ali Gureh, who is now recovering under the watchful eye of local WHO officials...