Sophie Shevarnadze:Mr. Gorbachev, thank you very much for finding the time to talk to us today.
Mikhail Gorbachev:I haven’t gone public for 18 months now.
How the Ark of the Covenant got to Ethiopia
by Lesley Downer
Special To The Japan Times
Jun 30, 2013
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Online: Jun 30, 2013
God’s will: The tale behind this picture in the Ethnological Museum in Addis Ababa tells how it was that Menelik I, son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, came to return from a visit to Jerusalem with the original Ten Commandments on tablets of stone in a chest.
The following article originally appeared in the February 2002 issue of HIGH TIMES Magazine
Marley knew the drill – in Jamaica, at the height of his success, when music and politics were still one, before the fog of censorship rolled into the island, old wounds were opened by a wave of destabilization politics. Stories appeared in the local, regional and international press downsizing the achievements of the quasi-socialist Jamaican government under Prime Minister Michael Manley.
In the late 1970s, the island was flooded with cheap guns, heroin, cocaine, right-wing propaganda, death squad rule and, as Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop described it three years later, the CIA’s “pernicious attempts [to] wreck the economy.”
POPE Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month in an unexpected development, saying he is too old to continue at the age of 85.
Rasta Livewire reported on March 14 2010 on the possibly of such a resignation: Will Benedict Resign? March 14 2010