Word: ethiopian
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...Eritrea's capital, Asmara, from which Mussolini launched his 1935 attack on Haile Selassie, red, yellow and green striped Ethiopian flags broke out. Barelegged, open-sandaled Ethiopian troops swung smartly up the broad Corso Italia, replacing the departed British Tommies, who had held the land in trust for eleven years...
...Powerful Ethiopian. Since Ethiopia has neither general elections nor a free press, many Eritreans fear that they may lose their new freedom. No monarch in the world today (except perhaps Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) wields greater power over his country's affairs than does Haile Selassie. Selassie personally opens all diplomatic pouches from his missions abroad, keeps in personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting...
...Goes Egypt? The ancient land of the Pharaohs last week lay drowsily under the parching sun, the Nile Delta a green lifeline beset by the hot brown desert. The river, swollen with the muddy waters from the Sudan and the Ethiopian mountains, as always carried life and hope; as they had for centuries, pregnant peasant women ate mud from its fertile banks, believing that it would make their unborn children strong. Yet even the Nile could not accomplish that miracle. In Egypt, two out of four children die before they are five years old, and the survivors are almost certain...
...eleven passengers on the big airliner over Africa were an ill-assorted lot. Even before the forced landing beyond Khartoum, anyone could have guessed that only the civilized amenities would keep their clashing backgrounds and personalities from breaking into open nastiness. Lij Makonnen, for example, was an effete Ethiopian prince on his way home from Paris. He hated all Englishmen-especially muscular Christian colonizers like young Peter Richards, who gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood...
Abdullah had three wives, two sons, three daughters. No. 1 Queen was a cousin, Umm Talal, mother of Prince Talal; No. 2 Queen was a Turk, Umm Naif, mother of Prince Naif the new regent; No. 3 was a comely Ethiopian, black as the tents of Kedar, onetime maidservant to Umm Naif. The black queen attended to Abdullah's clothes, prepared his favorite meals of tender lamb, rice and raisins. A trim figure with a passion for green clothes and nylon stockings, she is, despite her heavy veil, often recognized in Amman's streets. An Amman urchin once...