Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghana as commander in chief of the Ghanaian army. Early last week the Belgians were taking advantage of the confusion to parachute troops into smaller cities throughout the country, planning attacks on Matadi, Thysville, Stanleyville -Premier Lumumba's home town. Alexander cooled off the Belgians, rushed tough Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville and sent Colonel Ben Omar and his Moroccans down to Thysville and Matadi...
HIDDEN 7,226 ft. high on the Abyssinian plateau, all but inaccessible to the outside world, lies a forgotten city in a land where, according to Homer, the sun is supposed to set. The holy city of Aksum, spiritual capital of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, was once a flourishing market on the trade routes of Greece and Rome, is now reduced to a clutter of huts and crumbling relics in the mountains 350 miles north of Addis Ababa. Yet in Aksum, Ethiopians believe, Sheba once reigned, and in Aksum for nearly 3,000 years Abyssinian kings and rulers...
ADDIS ABABA HILTON will be built in the Ethiopian capital for government and operated by Hilton ho tels. Air-conditioned 250-room hotel will cost $4,900,000, is scheduled for completion...
...Jesuits are now worried that the Emperor's flirtation with Tito will mean their replacement by Yugoslavs. Worse, the Russians are setting up an Ethiopian technical school for 1,000 students to be taught by an all-Russian faculty. By the time the Emperor launches his projected degree-granting Haile Selassie University, it may be no source of Western comfort...