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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
Haile Selassie
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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
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Tafari Makonnen
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