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...idealized into powerlessness." Jong agreed. "We successful women feel we are doing something unwomanly by making money," she complained. "When we try to invest it wisely instead of going out and losing it all, we tend to feel conflicted." Still, when Ephron asked her, "After you get through the dire psychological effects of having money, is it O.K.?", Jong replied, "It's wonderful...
...moment, the Ogaden war remains a stalemate, with Somali forces holding most of the disputed territory and maintaining pressure on the strategic Ethiopian-held towns of Harar and Dire Dawa. Most diplomatic sources in Mogadishu believe, however, that when new shipments of heavy Soviet military equipment already in Ethiopia begin to show up in the field, the tide of battle could well turn against the Somalis...
...guerrillas presently control all of the Ogaden, except the important towns of Harar and Dire Dawa (see map). In late August they ended a 15-day siege of the town of Jijiga (pop. 4,000) with a final push that sent 4,000 mutinous Ethiopian troops scurrying off through the nearby Marda Pass. The fighting zone is now more than 50 miles away, but dust-blown little Jijiga is not yet out of enemy range, as Correspondent Wood discovered on his visit there. "Without warning," he reports, "three Ethiopian jets suddenly screamed over the town, pumping rockets and bombs into...
...names, the new director will have to face increasing demands for athletic facilities, not only from the graduate schools but also from an increasingly athletic-minded student body. Even worse, the chaos created by a year of uncertainty over who will take over a department that is in dire need of strong long-range planning will take a long time to settle. Finally, the departure of Pittenger will put Watson's successor under pressure to name a competent associate director soon, to take up the slack...
Though no Western correspondents were allowed to observe the desert combat at first hand, Somalia's Radio Mogadishu reported that guerrillas of an organization known as the Western Somali Liberation Front had captured as much as 90% of the Ogaden-all, in fact, except the Ethiopian strongholds of Dire Dawa, Harar and Jijiga, where fighting was raging...