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...imminent collapse of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime. Mengistu, whose 14-year reign of terror rivals that of Saddam Hussein, has been written off before, only to survive. But since late April, when Tigrean- led Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front guerrillas pushed as far south as Ambo, putting almost all of northern Ethiopia in rebel hands, the consensus has been that Mengistu is a goner. "It brought home that the 30- year seesaw of rebel victories and then government victories had irretrievably dipped," says a Bush Administration official. "This is the end game...
...conceived of and written largely by Auden, is a series of seemingly peripheral scenes and songs in the modern disjunctive genre, tenuously held together by the quest of Alan Norman (played by Mark Driscoll) and his dog for the missing Sir Francis Crewe (Paul Warner). The general of Pressan Ambo, the rural English town where the quest begins, explains the dog's disloyalty to all as if he were speaking of the play itself: "It's his mongrel blood, of course No loyalty, no proper feeling...
...Bishop Ambo was born in a grass-thatched hut in a tiny (pop. 100) coastal village of northern Papua. When he was eight his father, a hunter in the Sombaba tribe, sent him and his brother off to the Anglican mission school in nearby Gona. There the two boys joined the church, learned to read and write, and lost their tribal fear of sorcerers and spirits. Later, while he was at St. Aiden's teacher-training college near Dogura, young George Ambo felt the first stirrings of a call to the priesthood, and at the same time attracted...
...Ambo was ordained a priest, together with his brother, in 1958. His first assignment was Boiani, fourth largest Anglican mission district in the diocese. To tend its 7,000 natives, scattered through the rugged southern reaches of the Owen Stanley mountain range, Ambo often swam storm-swollen rivers in his shorts, was lucky to cover 20 miles in two days of tramping...
Declared the Anglican Primate of Australia, Sydney's Archbishop Hugh Gough, at Bishop Ambo's consecration: "This is a great moment in the missionary history of the church...