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...decline of the League of Nations began with the League's refusal to extend its support to Ethiopia against Italy. History will record that the decline of the United Nations began on Oct. 25, 1971, when the U.N. expelled Nationalist China...
...blue whale off Peru in 1966 by going directly to its President and persuading him to order a stay on the hunting of the species by all whalers. Prince Bernhard has pressured the heads of state of several countries to become more active conservationists. When he visited Ethiopia a few years ago, he sent advance notice that he wanted to visit a national park-knowing full well that none existed in Ethiopia. By the time he arrived, however, a national park had been set aside and prepared for his inspection...
SOMETHING out of the Arabian nights" was what Mohammed Reza Pahlevi commanded-and when Iran's Shah of Shahs orders something, he generally gets it. The cost was $100 million, more or less, and the cast included a reigning Emperor (Haile Selassie of Ethiopia), nine Kings, five Queens, 13 Princes, eight Princesses, 16 Presidents, three Premiers, four Vice Presidents, two Governor Generals, two Foreign Ministers, nine sheiks and two sultans. That clearly made last week's shindig in Iran's ancient ceremonial center of Persepolis one of the biggest bashes in all history. Whether it was also...
...tung has dropped out of sight for extended periods, only to make a dramatic reappearance-swimming in the Yangtze River, standing atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking, greeting a visiting dignitary. Last week, after yet another tantalizing absence, Mao was back again, this time to welcome Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie to Peking. As one of the 27 aides who accompanied the Lion of Judah told it, the Chairman seemed in the pink. Mao "was smiling and waved his arms to greet his royal visitor," he reported. As the two leaders began their private 105-minute talk...
Social Secretary. Despite her Congo exploits, Tally was turned down for assignments as political or economic officer by three U.S. ambassadors. Eventually one of them, Edward Korry, Ambassador to Ethiopia, let her become his executive assistant. But the job involved little more than that of a social secretary who also went on shopping trips for Kerry's wife...