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...Reuters and Agence France-Presse for "distorting" their reports. All that was left of a U.S. presence that once had numbered some 4,000 advisers, diplomats, technicians and family members were 76 staffers and five Marine guards at the U.S. embassy and the Agency for International Development in Addis Ababa. The regime also closed down six foreign consulates in Asmara, the Eritrean provincial capital: those of Italy, France, Belgium, Britain and Sudan, as well as the U.S. Evidently Mengistu did not want nonsympathetic foreigners in a position to observe the latest phase of his drive against the rebels-an advance...
...their opponents. Getachew Mekasha, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt, who defected in March, reckons that there are 25,000 political prisoners in Ethiopian jails. Says Mekasha, who is now teaching at California's Ambassador College in Pasadena: "The people in power in Addis Ababa today believe in the blind application of force. They use Marxist jargon because it is convenient and in keeping with the trends, but they rule through repression, indiscriminate murder and terror...
Mengistu does little to counteract that image. An erect figure in neatly pressed khakis, he is prone to waving red handkerchiefs, symbolic of blood, and leading crowds in shouting "Down with Yankee imperialism!" on public occasions. In a speech in Addis Ababa's Revolution Square last month, he engaged in one typically colorful bit of theater. First he raised his hand in a clenched-fist salute. Then he smashed to the ground six bottles filled with bloodlike dye-just to show how he would destroy all enemies of his rule...
...million. Chief export: cotton. Religion: predominantly Islam. The armed forces consist of 53,000 men. President Jaafar Numeiry, who is vigorously antiCommunist, has lately been developing close ties with the U.S., which is supplying military transport planes to Khartoum. Numeiry is backing the Ethiopian rebels plaguing the Addis Ababa regime...
Sources in Addis Ababa speculate that the action by the two-year-old leftist military government signals a move away from the West...