Word: ethiopian
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...cast of 600 singers and dancers and ten Berber horses. There were half-naked belly dancers, Nubian slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted green from head to toe. And when Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening of the Suez Canal), Zeffirelli chose Second Empire France and Epic Hollywood as his cultural guides. "I have tried to give the public the best...
...Somalis began running into the stubborn objections of others shortly after Somalia (pop. 2,000,000) won independence in 1960 and began building a nation out of former Italian Somalia and British Somaliland. Emperor Haile Selassie coldly said no to Somalia's insistence on annexation of an Ethiopian border area containing 1,000,000 Somalis. France likewise refused to give up French Somaliland, where 600,000 Somalis live...
Last week Irish infantrymen marched into Kipushi, site of copper mines at the Rhodesian border. Ethiopian U.N. troops already occupied Elisabethville itself. But the big prize was Jadotville, a town of 90,000, where the giant Union Mini&3233;re mineral outfit produces one-third of its copper (110,000 tons) and three-fourths of its cobalt (6,600 tons) each year. Toward Jadotville, 70 miles from Elisabethville, moved a two-mile-long column of Indians commanded by Brigadier Reginald Noronha. a gutty soldier who munched hardboiled eggs while mortar shells burst around...
...fighting began with what Elisabethville residents call "L'Affaire Simba"-a reference to Simba beer, the local brew that both sides guzzled on and off duty. As the U.N. told it, boozed-up Katangese gendarmes suddenly opened fire on a detachment of Ethiopian U.N. troops in suburban Lubumbashi. As Tshombe described matters, a few tipsy Ethiopians started the shooting by scrambling atop a 200-ft. slag heap outside the big Union Miniere plant and taking potshots at the Katangese...
Noronha did not have long to wait. Three days later an Ethiopian guard fired a warning shot at a Katangese soldier who was approaching his post. Unhurt, the Katangese rolled down a hill in search of cover, but his comrades thought he had been hit and opened fire. Soon U.N. positions around the city were under attack. Tshombe "agreed"' to a ceasefire, but his 20,000 men kept right on fighting. "They are mad," said a Red Cross official who saw them rampaging through a township, firing at anything that moved. "They are killing their...