Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sudan. No money was passed. The State Department apparently played no role in the release, though it now says cryptically that it carried on "unremitting" efforts to free the men by negotiating through governments that have contact with the rebels. Harrell returned to his family in Milwaukee. With his Ethiopian wife, Steve Campbell flew home to Bettendorf and exulted: "I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. I had no idea there could be so much love." But all the battles that Len Campbell had fought left him weary and cynical. As he said: "I feel like...
...witness that we need him. The rapport that he has with students throughout the University also make him a very valuable member of this academic community. Most importantly, as specialist in Ge'ez (one of the most important classical and literary language of Africa), Ge'ez literature, and Ethiopian religious history with additional extensive knowledge of many other ancient languages and literatures, particularly ancient Egyptian and Arabic, as well as the history of the ancient Nile civilizations, Isaac is irreplaceable. Prejudice and ignorance are two main causes for Professor Isaac's mistreatment in this University. Were there administrators and their...
...revival seems to have come from a mysterious ascetic who appeared in the Nile Valley in 1935, spent 30 years in a remote sandstone cave and vanished on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1965. A wiry, wispy-bearded man known only as Abdel Messieh (Slave of Christ) the Ethiopian, he had a deep influence on two men who later became Patriarchs of Alexandria-Popes of the Coptic Church...
...jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted in 1626 when Rembrandt was only 19, the 25-in. by 19-in. discovery depicts the baptism of an Ethiopian courtier by Deacon Philip, as recounted in Acts 8. Defoer, 39, declined to name the painting's last owner or the purchase price. But he made no secret of his own pleasure at the acquisition. Burbled the scholar: "A work of this magnitude one finds only once in five lifetimes...
...resolution! We have failed the people of Angola!" So said Kenya's Vice President Daniel Arap Moi last week after the collapse of the Organization of African Unity's emergency summit meeting on the Angolan civil war. After three frustrating days of talks in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, the delegates from the 46 O.A.U. nations gave up their effort to find a way to halt the fighting. In fact, all they were able to do was demonstrate just how little unity there is in the O.A.U. The delegates not only failed to adopt a resolution on Angola...