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...walk upright? Scientists believe this transformation probably occurred between 4 million and 6 million years ago, but until recently they had no fossils to back up their hypothesis. In 1994 researchers reported that they had found teeth and other fragments of a 4.4 million-year-old hominid in Ethiopia. But without key bones from below the waist, they could not say for sure how the animal moved...
...Reagan was fighting the war in Panama for the democratic rights of those people and against human rights violations, why did he choose not to send American soldiers to Ethiopia, where yet another military dictator was abusing the basic human rights of many and causing a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians? The examples of abusive human rights practices by petty dictators from all over the world are endless. The reason why the United States became involved in Panama, it can at least be conjectured, is because the political instablity that General Noriega represented was too great...
...annual report, Freedom in the World, Freedom House ranks each of the world's nations as "free," "partly free" or "not free." All seven members of the ngo committee that the report listed as "not free" -- Cuba, China, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Sudan, Swaziland and Tunisia -- voted against the organization. Their action highlighted a tendency among a coterie of nations often accused of political abuses, including Cuba, China, Iran and Indonesia, to continually fight U.N. efforts on behalf of human rights...
...Earlier, Sudan threatened to withhold water from the Nile, Egypt's life line, if Cairo sends troops to the disputed Halaib region claimed by both countries. Tensions have been escalating since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Sudan's leader Hassan Turabi of planning last week's assasination attempt in Ethiopia. In response to Sudan's threats, an angry Mubarak warned that Egypt would confront "those who play with fire in Khartoum...
Tadesse sought to become a dermatologist andreturn to Ethiopia, said a friend, HumphreyWattenga '96, at a University-wide informationmeeting on Thursday...