Word: ethiopia
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...blasted northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony...
...prospective father can be. It was not just that the Italian government has been providing half Somalia's income. There was also the difficulty that, though camels are Somalia's chief source of wealth, much of the Somali nomads' grazing lands lie over the border in Ethiopia. To the frustrated disgust of Somali nationalists, moreover, French Somaliland voted last year to stay in the French Community, and the French, determined to hang onto their profitable Djibouti rail line to the interior, have made common cause with the Ethiopians against the dream of an independent Greater Somalia made...
...jailings and deportations of members of the opposition have made the biggest headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...
...Africa, the toughest black leadership tends also to be the most capable. President Tubman has pulled Liberia out of a century of backwardness. Haile Selassie personally set up a constitution, decreed Parliament and Ethiopia's first elections. The way that Sekou Toure organized his country in five short years and under the very noses of the French was a masterpiece...
Professionally and financially, the Paris orphan plumbed new depths during the years leading up to World War II. Circulation fell below 15,000; the paper, dependent on tourist advertising, shamelessly painted a false picture of Europe so as not to lose it. It applauded Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia, turned its back on Hitler's invasion of Austria to editorialize on mothers-in-law. But the paper always had a smattering of good newsmen, e.g., Elliot Paul, Eric Sevareid, CBS Newscaster Ned Calmer, all of whom apprenticed there. And when a veteran staffer, Eric Hawkins, was appointed managing...