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Just how guided the tour would be became clear soon after the visitors arrived in Addis Ababa. "The boom came down hard on the first day," reported TIME'S David Wood. A slight, wiry official showed up at the Ghion Hotel and told the reporters: "We will insist that you stay at this hotel and that you stick to the official program." He was not kidding. His instructions were enforced by pistol-toting guards stationed outside the hotel. Anyone trying to make the normal round of journalistic contacts with diplomats and other sources-or even...
...nick of time-"it was the nearest available exit." Another U.S. official in a tight spot was Mrs. Oswald B. Lord of Minneapolis, who happened to be in Addis Ababa as the U.S. observer at a U.N.-sponsored seminar on "women in public life." As bullets whistled through the Ghion Hotel, Mrs. Lord recalls, "I sat on the floor of my room drinking bourbon, wrapping Christmas gifts and writing feverishly in my diary...
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