Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William H. Olson, 25, Cornell graduate ('65) and Peace Corpsman since last June who taught science in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ugri; after being attacked by a crocodile while standing waist-deep in the muddy Baro River near Gambela, Ethiopia. Five fellow corpsmen heard Olson shout and saw the beast pull him under; next day police found and shot the crocodile...
...ETHIOPIA Volunteers will work in the community centers of seven large Ethiopian cities. They will aid in the development of effective social welfare programs, such as health education, adult literacy, recreation and handicraft instruction...
...dislike goes beyond rational, or even irrational, argument. Some of it is purely visceral. "I don't know why," says an Ethiopian observer, "but I cannot stand to look at his picture." Says a Turkish businessman, even while trying to display his pro-American sentiments: "Just because Johnson is a boob does not mean that all Americans are boobs." A Tokyo political scientist can find only one word to define Johnson: shominteki-meaning pedestrian or commonplace...
...Accepted the credentials of new Ethiopian Ambassador Teshome Haile Marriam, later cruised down the Potomac with Marriam and 34 other ambassadors. An uninvited guest was New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who hustled aboard at the last minute thinking that he was joining another party. Said Lyndon: "You're my favorite stowaway...
...democracy after six years of military oppression." Mahgoub saw no "insuperable blockades" to good relations with neighboring Egypt and hinted that the Sudan will no longer serve as a transit route for arms shipments either to the Congo rebels or to the Eritrean insurgents who are battling the Ethiopian regime of Emperor Haile Selassie...