Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marxist revolution deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who had more or less looked out for the Falashas. Declaring himself a direct descendant of Solomon. Selassie used the existence of Ethiopian Jews to legitimate his claim. But the Marxists who deposed him had no such interest in protecting the Falashas...
...against rebellious property owners in Ethiopia's provinces: the rebels dreaded Mengistu's land reform program. Jews, historically the only minority group denied the right to own land, would have profited from the reform. The landed interests decided to destroy the Falashas rather than surrender their property. The landed Ethiopian resistance revived a superstitious anti-Semitism among the two million refugees it created; they blame the "evil eye" of the Falashas for the widespread misery. Violent attacks on the Jewshave resulted, and continue to this...
...where it is due, Leakey goes on to describe the earlier findings in South Africa of Raymond Dart and Robert Broom, who unearthed human ancestors more than 3 million years old, as well as to discuss Don Johanson's dramatic discovery of Lucy, the famous four-foot-tall Ethiopian who walked upright at least 3 million years ago. The find, Leakey notes, confirms that man's ancestors walked erect long before they began to develop the big brains that set them apart from more primal primates...
Isaac--a Black Ethiopian "Africanist" who specializes in Ethiopian language, literature and church history--subsequently filed a complaint with the EEOC charging Harvard with discrimination and lodged a suit against Harvard in Federal District Court
...more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much to ship as to buy. We have to squeeze out every inch." Gibson spent two years in The Bronx as a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Inside the cathedral, he will tell you, he soars beyond the "furthest reaches of space...