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Editor: Theodros Kidane, Hewlett Packard, Indianapolis, IN

E-mail: TED_KIDANE@HPATC2.DESK.HP.COM

Contents:

* Issue 1 . Introduction, "How Emperor Menelik Introduced Electricity to Ethiopia".

* Issue 2. Emperor Menelik's Letter to Abba Jiffar, the governor of Jimma...."Treat my Oromo people who are in your jurisdiction fairly.."

* Issue 3. Menelik's Proclamation to Abolish Slavery in the Ethiopian Empire."---- I have told you before again and again to stop selling and buying slaves.....

* Issue 4. Menelik opens the first Ethiopian Hotel, "Etege Taytu Hotel".

* Issue 5. Menelik's Proclamation on Civil Service.

* Issue 6 . Menelik's Proclamation requesting his regional governors to send him craftsmen and admonishing his citizens to respect the craftsmen. "From now on, anyone found insulting my people is insulting me.."