Word: wolde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Military Power. Panicked by the revolt, Aklilu Hapte Wold, who had been Prime Minister since 1961, quit, as did his entire Cabinet. When the Emperor did not immediately accept Aklilu's resignation, dissident soldiers in full battle gear moved into the capital's streets. In a show of strength, they took control of Addis Ababa's banks, its airport and key buildings. At that point, Haile Selassie capitulated. Appearing once more on radio and TV, he granted the armed forces virtually the entire pay raise they had demanded, pledged no reprisals and designated a popular career diplomat...
...fourth inning. Smith laced a double to lead off and then stole third. He then raced home when Drago uncorked a wold pitch to up the margin...
...Kenyan team looks even stronger, with budding new stars to support defending Olympic Champions Kipchoge Keino (in the 1.500-meter run), Naftali Temu (in the 10,000 meters) and Amos Biwott (in the 3,000-meter steeplechase). Ethiopia too has potential gold medalists in defending Marathon Champion Mamo Wold and Miruz Yifter, a specialist in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs. In short, if Black Africa is absent, some of the medals awarded at Munich will seem slightly tarnished...
With a 5-1 marksss in the Ivies, the Crimson and Cornell trail unbeaten Penn by one game going into the last weekend of conference matches. A Harvard victory today wold prolong the Crimson's faint hope for a title until tomorrow when the Quakers entertain the Big Red in Philadelphia...
...fraud that is passed off as science. Almost all the claims of the drug industry need to be greeted with more discriminating eyes. The scandal over cyclamates and the general confusion over poisons in foodstuffs seem to illustrate a misunderstanding of what science and technology are in the wold. The power that science has unleashed has engendered a cross-eyed belief and consequent perversion of much scientific knowledge...