Tuesday, February 17, 1976. The ABA starts its descent. Abuna Theophilos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, arrested.

The American Bar Association (ABA) voted to amend its rules of ethics to allow lawyers to advertise their services. Initially, the ABA approved letting attorneys buy display ads in telephone directories (specifically, the "Yellow Pages" for business phone numbers), with limitations on what could be allowed in the ad.

It's been an absolute disaster.

I used to be a member of the ABA, which does provide some good services, but I ultimately dropped out as it truly had some "woke" sections to it that had little to do with reality.

Abuna Theophilos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, was removed from office by Ethiopia's military rulers and imprisoned.  He'd be murdered on August 14, 1979.

During his captivity he escaped on one occasion and  thought about seeking refuge in the Greek Embassy.  He decided instead to head for a monastery, but was captured en route.

The Clark National Forest and the Mark Twain National Forest, both in Missouri. were merged into one unit.

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Friday, April 26, 1974. A Portuguese military coup turns towards democracy.

The Portuguese Junta de Salvação Nacional announced that it would govern Portugal until further notice, but that it would restore democracy and, further, it would pursue a policy to end Portuguese rule of Mozambique, Angola and its other colonies.  It was in fact the Portuguese corporatist state's efforts to retain its colonies by force which had led to its junior military officers becoming disaffected, leading to the coup, and a return to democracy, through the Movimento das Forças Armadas.

The junta also released most political prisoners in the country.

I should have noted the coup in yesterday's entries, but I failed to.

Angola and Mozambique would of course slip into civil war.

The West German Bundestag narrowly passed a law allowing abortion in the first trimester, but it was soon suspended by the German supreme court and then found to be unconstitutional.  Contrary to what Americans commonly think, abortion was much more restricted in Europe than in the US up until recently, and proposals here to return to the bizarre Roe v. Wade standard would return the US to a far more bloody condition than exists in Europe.

The Ethiopian government arrested members of the government and military that were associated in some fashion with the February 25 coup.

April 26, 1974: The Yankees' Friday Night Massacre

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Monday, April 15, 1974. The Hibernia Bank Robbery.

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Saturday, January 12, 1974. How revolutions begin.

The Ethiopian Revolution began with the mutiny of the Negele Borana garrison over bad food and a lack of water.

They sized Lt. Gen. Deresse Dubale, Emperor Haile Selassie's envoy, and forced him to survive on the same fare they had for a week.

Gasoline rationing commenced in the Netherlands.

Television started operation in Tanzania.