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Amid the squalor of Ethiopia's rapidly rilling refugee camps, little help appeared to be in sight last week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Bare Cupboard | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...metric tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will be needed during the next year. Pledged shipments so far total less than one-third of that amount. Said Taffari: "I regret to say that though we are very grateful for all the international sympathy, it is now the turn of foreign governments to implement the sympathy of their citizens. The little people have given all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Bare Cupboard | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

With the cross of Jesus on his breast, Taffari Makonnen, already King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God, proceeded last week to his Second Coronation, this time as Power of Trinity the First, Emperor of Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Coronation | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Luckless Empress | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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