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...more than 300 were killed, took place on April 29-reflect the jitters of a besieged regime. From the rebellious northern province of Eritrea to Ethiopia's southeastern frontier with Somalia, Mengistu and the Dergue face the gravest threat to their despotic rule since they overthrew U.S.-backed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In and around the capital, the main opposition group is the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (E.P.R.P.), a Marxist organization, led primarily by students and young workers, that demands a return to civilian rule. E.P.R.P. has given the Dergue good reason to be nervous...
...King may be arranging a return bout between Ali and Rocky Marciano, whose WBA rating unexpectedly skyrocketed to the number 11 position (right behind Evangelista) last week. I tried calling Marciano, but to no avail. Keep your ears to the ground on this one...Who was the third emperor of Rome?...Who played "Ethel" in the old "Lucy" series?...Who was Elizabeth Taylor's twelfth husband?...There might have been a punch thrown in that Ali-Evangelista fight last night...Trivia Quiz: Who played Elizabeth Taylor's 12th husband in the boxing movie of the same name? Speaking of breakfast...
...slim lieutenant colonel with a sharklike grin named Mengistu Haile Mariam. An avowed Marxist, he was one of a coterie of officers who finally deposed Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974. Today, at 39, he has emerged as the top man in Ethiopia's 60-member junta, largely by pressing a campaign of arrests and killings that rivals even Ugandan Field Marshal Idi Amin's considerable efforts in this area. Mostly, Mengistu's efforts have been aimed at half a dozen rebel organizations, including a full-fledged guerrilla force fighting for independence in Eritrea...
Like a Roman emperor at the Colosseum, Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko strutted into Kinshasa's 20th of May Stadium last week to the cheers of 60,000 of his countrymen, many of whom had just snake-danced through the streets of the capital. Waving an elaborately carved cane, he pointed contemptuously at a pair of bedraggled, badly wounded prisoners-the first, apparently, to have been captured by government forces in nearly two months of fighting against invaders in Shaba province (TIME, April 25). Mobutu's gestures brought cries of "Mort, mort," (Death, death...
...annual meeting in Los Angeles, where he announced the switch, that he would keep a hand in "such areas as policy questions, acquisitions, planning and creative activities" -a pretty fair definition of a chief executive's interests. Said one CBS insider: "Paley has given up every position except emperor...