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...still guard the country's vulnerable eastern flank. East Germans are used to train Ethiopia's secret police. Several hundred more Soviet-bloc advisers are expected to be working in government departments and state-controlled industries by year's end. Says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Ethiopia represents Moscow's greatest success in Africa in more than a decade. It's a prize that the Soviets aren't going to let slip away...
Although there is little doubt that the Soviets will choose to stay, their pervasive role in Ethiopia is far from fully supported. Traders in Addis Ababa's thriving bazaar, the Mercado, resent Soviet browsers, who rarely have enough money to buy their merchandise. "They keep to themselves and won't even employ Ethiopians as cooks or drivers," complains one resident. That undercurrent of hostility perhaps explains why Mengistu has not tried to impose many East-bloc values on a country whose Western links go back to the arrival of Portuguese explorers in the 16th century...
Despite such failures, Mengistu remains committed to Communist models of development. Hopes that Mengistu's election as chairman of the 50-member Organization of African Unity during its meeting in Addis Ababa last month might moderate his stance have already been dashed. Less than a week after his designation, Mengistu appeared under a hammer-and-sickle emblem to condemn "Western opposition to socialism" as "the main threat to world peace." It was enough to convince even those who are skeptical of the durability of the Soviet link of exactly where Mengistu intends to steer Ethiopia...
...fact remains that writers, like industrialists, exploit resources. And writers usually get more personal. Roth's heightened realism works because it is faithful to specific locales, customs, attitudes and speech patterns. His urban Jews would be out of place in Addis Ababa. Ironically, fame made Roth himself vulnerable to distortion and caricature by the heightened realists who turn successes into celebrities. To be regarded as the thinking man's Woody Allen is the sort of acclaim he can live without...
...troops into neighboring Chad, defeated one faction in that country's sputtering civil war and announced a "merger" of the two nations. Since then tremors of anxiety have reverberated across West Africa. Last week a meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa was marked by angry attacks against Libya's "aggression" in Chad. Many West and Central African leaders fear it is only the first step toward a consummation of Gadaffi's long-range ambition to establish an Islamic sub-Saharan republic stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. Despite diplomatic pressures...