Workers Support the Military Council
Snapshot during an anti-imperialist mass rally in Addis Ababa in March 1977 with 500,000 people participating: As a sign of confidence a representative of the Ethiopian farmers presents a spear to Colonel General Mengistu Haile-Mariam (left), Chai...
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Ethiopia: Efforts for Better Grain Harvest
These farmers of an Ethiopian cooperative have not yet modern agricultural technology available. They bring the corn by hand. Nevertheless they strive for better grain harvests which is a major task in the current first year of the national revolu...
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Ethiopia Defeats Ignorance — Geography Lesson
In 1974, the number of Ethiopian students who could not read or write was 93 per cent. But the government's program to educate them using television and radio has been successful. The number of currently studying young and adult students are incre...
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Addis Ababa — Meeting Place of O. A. U. summit
This is a view of Haile Selassie Square in Addis Ababa with the Ethiopian Bank of Commerce in the background.
This year's summit conference of the Organisation of African Unity (O.A.U.) is taking place in the Ethiopian capital from 5 to 9 November...
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A Cultivated Land on a Mountain - Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen -
Terraced Fields in the High Mountains
The Attaf settlement is situated in the stony landscape of the Yaffei Mountains. The terraced fields in foreground, which were built by Yemenite peasants in painful wo...
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Soviet Cosmonauts Welcomed in West Berlin
Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev being enthusiastically welcomed by West Berliners at a meeting in the Humboldt Cinema during their recent tour of West Berlin.— (Zentral-Bild.).
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Soviet Cosmonauts Visit German Democratic Republic
Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Lenov (right) enjoying a trip on Berlin waters on board the State yacht "Albin Koebis," during their recent visit there. Mrs. Leonova is on the extreme right.— (ADN/Zentralbild).
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Ethiopia: Lessons in Polytechnics
Imparting craftmen's abilities to pupils - like sewing, treating wood and also housekeeping - are included in the teaching programme of the 12th-form secondary school at Awasa, capital of the Ethiopian administrative region of Sidamo.
Until 1990, ...
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Workers Strive for Better Sugar-cane Production
The harvest of the 7000-hectare sugar-cane fields situated 120 kilometers away from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is exceptional this year. The photo shows the happy Ethiopian farmers enjoying a short break. There are about 6,000 farmers working in the f...
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