Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have avoided violence. Only when restless students from the capital's Haile Selassie University ventured outside the campus last week, to ignite an effigy of Endalkachew and demand "free speech" and "free press," were they attacked by baton-wielding police. Even then, few were injured or arrested. Ethiopian students studying in the Soviet Union also demonstrated. They occupied the Ethiopian embassy in Moscow for three hours and demanded that the Emperor abdicate...
Preece and Executive Editor Philip W. Goetz personally plowed through 200,000 words of text a week. Goetz once struggled home with a briefcase full of articles on analgesics, Scipio, polymorphic biology, Canute the Great, Ethiopian culture and someone named 'Umar al-Hajj, "whoever the hell that was. * "- Curiously, neither editor claims to be a walking encyclopaedia. "To be a good editor, you've got to have a mind like a sieve," insists Preece. Adds Goetz: "I can talk for two minutes on any subject under the sun, but the third minute is usually a disaster...
...world can readily testify, 1973 was an unusual year with many challenges. But in the course of pursuing stories for the magazine, correspondents had some offbeat adventures. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, for instance, was in Peking to cover a reception given by the Chinese for visiting Ethiopian dignitaries last February. Rowan was jogging early one morning when a bearded man leaned out of a taxicab and frantically ordered him to stop. The man was a French television cameraman who had been assigned to record the first signs of the American presence in Peking but was having trouble locating...
...West African famine is striking worst in Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian government has deliberately refused to recognize the severity of the crisis until the past few weeks, Dr. Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said yesterday...
Died. Abebe Bikila, 40, supple Ethiopian who became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto...