Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Considering events in Katanga, we Norwegians count ourselves lucky that there was no U.N. and no Dag Hammarskjold in 1905; otherwise, we would have had Ethiopian and Italian troops here to prevent our secession and enforce the authority of the central government in Stockholm...
...action was already in the works, for just that afternoon one of Katanga's Dorniers had dropped three bombs near U.N. troops at the airport. Next morning all 15 of the U.N.'s jets-Indian Canberras, Swedish Saabs and Ethiopian Sabres-were off in search of Katanga's meager air force. The Indian jets found four planes on the ground at nearby Kolwezi and destroyed them all. The air strike was just in time, for some of the Kolwezi planes were loaded with bombs and ready for another counterattack against the U.N. in Elisabethville...
...formed a new National Patrice Lumumba Party and began orating against the U.N. ("hostile to the Congo"). Last week his soldiers, apparently feeling that it is open season on all Western whites, roughed up U.S. Consul Thomas A. Cassilly. All the U.N. could think of was to airlift 350 Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville to reinforce the U.N. force of 450 already there...
...working at capacity. If the service had deteriorated at the little Hotel Leopold II, the cannibal sandwich (raw hamburger, raw egg, chopped onion) remained excellent at the terrace dining room. No one much cared when news arrived that Katanga's mercenaries had clashed with the U.N.'s Ethiopian troops up north where President Moise Tshombe was clearing out his enemies...
Died. Brigadier General Mengistu Newaye, 45, convicted of leading his Ethiopian Imperial Guard into revolt against Emperor Haile Selassie last December; by hanging; in Addis Ababa...