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During their campaign, the Somalis said, the guerrillas had cut the rail line linking the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa with the Red Sea port of Djibouti and had killed or captured 23,000 Ethiopian troops. The Somalis also accused the Ethiopians of burning villages and massacring hundreds of civilians during their retreat. By the end of August, vowed the Somali guerrillas, the entire region would be "liberated" and merged with the Somali Republic...
...Egyptians are convinced that Gaddafi was plotting with Addis Ababa to upset the government of Somalia's President Muhammad Siad Barre, who is edging away from his longtime dependence on Moscow as the Soviets move even closer to his archenemies, the Ethiopians. Heavy fighting has broken out between the two countries. The Western Somali Liberation Front, which is supported by Barre, claims to have killed at least 1,000 Ethiopians in savage battles in Bale province. The Somalis say that they have shot down three Ethiopian jets and a transport plane carrying Ethiopian paratroopers over Somali territory. The Ethiopians...
...important role they once played in both Egypt and Sudan, but have built a new bastion in Ethiopia. (The U.S., at the same time, has strengthened its ties with Cairo and Khartoum but, with the fall of Haile Selassie and the rise of the leftist military regime in Addis Ababa, has lost out there.) The Soviets have given the Ethiopians $100 million in military aid, while Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi-ever the Arab world's odd man out-has done the same. Moreover, an estimated 3,000 Cubans are now in Ethiopia helping to prepare the peasant...
...Interest. Somalia's interest in Djibouti is primarily ethnic, for the majority Issa tribe in the territory is Somali-speaking. Ethiopia's stake is economic: 60% of its foreign trade moves via Djibouti's deepwater port; a rickety, 60-year-old railroad connects it with Addis Ababa. Both countries deny any annexation designs, but neither trusts the other's disclaimers. Nor do Djibouti's new rulers. Says Ahmed Dini, 45, president of the newly elected National Assembly: "The Somalis and Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some...
...cast-off American arms and trained-if that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope to whip enough "volunteers" into fighting trim to begin marching north in June before the onset of the rainy season. Griggs reports that long convoys are rolling through Addis Ababa carrying young recruits to a fetid training camp named Siga Meda, or "field of meat," west of the capital. It was formerly used for slaughtering goats, sheep and cattle for market...