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Authenticity of their most recent writings aside, there are some striking similarities between the two authors. Like Irving, Hungarian-born Farago (who came to the U.S. in 1937 after a journalistic career in Europe and Ethiopia) is noted for his expansiveness and charm. Says one close acquaintance: "He is flamboyant, talks a lot, drops the names of important people he has just met as though they are his friends, and is renowned as a raconteur...
...airplane, and I see a great potential in China for aircraft of all types." Miller expects to see some of the 707s flown by the Chinese to distant countries. Peking either has already successfully bargained or is known to be negotiating for reciprocal air rights with France, Albania, Ethiopia and Pakistan; at present China's only foreign flights are to major cities in five neighboring countries...
...that erupted last week, virtually on the eve of the XX Olympiad in Munich, was potentially the most disruptive in the troubled 76-year history of the modern Games. The governments of eleven Black African nations, notably Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, declared that they would not permit their countrymen to compete if the Games remained open to athletes from white-supremacist Rhodesia...
...more medals than any other nation except the U.S. This year the Kenyan team looks even stronger, with budding new stars to support defending Olympic Champions Kipchoge Keino (in the 1.500-meter run), Naftali Temu (in the 10,000 meters) and Amos Biwott (in the 3,000-meter steeplechase). Ethiopia too has potential gold medalists in defending Marathon Champion Mamo Wold and Miruz Yifter, a specialist in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs. In short, if Black Africa is absent, some of the medals awarded at Munich will seem slightly tarnished...
...blacks of the south and the 11 million northerners, mostly Arabs. Three months ago, the leaders of the two sides-Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the southern guerrillas-met in Addis Ababa, capital of neighboring Ethiopia, and signed a compromise settlement negotiated with the help of U.N. refugee organizations...