Word: ethiopia
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...court voted eight to seven to dismiss the case brought by Ethiopia and Liberia against South Africa, on the technical grounds that neither of the plaintiffs had "any legal right or interest" in the matter...
...important question now seems to be not who voted how, but what next? The large African contingent in the U.N. has already sworn to bar re-election for any of the judges who voted against Ethiopia and Liberia. Violence is hinted at everywhere. Those who used to urge economic sanctions and legal proceedings have been silenced and feel as if they have betrayed the cause of racial justice in South Africa by delaying the inevitable conflict. There is a feeling among Western liberals that they have been defeated by their own democratic institutions; that international organs have not stood...
...business-sponsored promotional organization. After a private meeting, foundation officials invited Kennedy to return next year. He said he would love to and might bring along some of his nine children. Then, after a warm reception in Tanzania, the Senator, more tousled than ever, headed for Kenya and Ethiopia...
...original invitation to Selassie two years ago, kept his visitor visible and on the go, attending receptions, laying wreaths and setting cornerstones. In the small, ornate parliamentary chamber of the country's "Red House," Selassie pleased everyone by calling for closer ties between "the two great peoples" of Ethiopia and Trinidad-Tobago...
Eaten & Trampled. At Selassie's second stop, in Kingston, Jamaica, the airport was mobbed by 2,000 members of a minority Negro cult called the Rastafarians, who worship Selassie as God and want the Jamaican government to send them "home" to Ethiopia. Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante, 82, has discouraged such repatriation, saying wryly: "We must protect them. They would just get out there in the jungle and be trampled by elephants and eaten by the lions." Undiscouraged, the Rastas showed up at the airport waving placards reading "Hail to the Lord Anointed" and chanting "Selassie is Christ...