Word: ethiopian
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...University College of Addis Ababa, who had come out in support of the rebels, learned that they could not go back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...
...morning before dawn the Imperial Guard, led by rebel officers, seized strong points in Addis Ababa, including all communication centers. Asfa Wassan named Imru as Premier and went on the radio to explain that the purpose of the coup was to end "3,000 years of injustice . . . The Ethiopian people have waited patiently to be freed of oppression, poverty and ignorance." The Crown Prince promised to set up a true constitutional monarchy, and to allow the creation of political parties-for which his father has no taste. In the Congo, Ethiopian Chargé d'Affaires Sabour Ahadou gleefully...
...LIKE all Ethiopian royalty, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie traces his ancestry back to the match between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. His Semite-Hamite blood lines show in his stern jaw and aquiline nose. But in practical fact, his hold on the Ethiopian throne has been due less to ancestry than to his ability to outplot Ethiopia's best plotters...
...hope of catching the royal eye. Eventually, if lucky, he gets an audience where, with his face pressed to the floor, he blurts out his qualifications and accepts whatever favor the Emperor is in the mood to dispense. The Emperor's powerful ally is the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which owns 40% of Ethiopia's land and resists any effort to alter this profitable situation...
Pleading a lack of orders, the U.N.'s Stanleyville garrison of 1,500 Ethiopian troops raised hardly a finger at these outrages; but last week, when the threats of beheadings came in from Stanleyville's Salumu, U.N. headquarters finally went into action. U.N. chief of staff, Ethiopia's General Mangashalyassu, was rushed to the scene to take over. He quickly commandeered a school building in which all the 2,000 whites of the province were offered haven and surrounded it with his troops. But several Belgians, in the Stanleyville jail on other charges, already were in Salumu...