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...first pictures that provide the West with documentary evidence of the substantial Soviet and Cuban presence in Ethiopia. Western intelligence sources estimate that there are perhaps 9,000 Cubans in Ogaden. Another 2,000 to 4,000 are assisting the Ethiopians in a bloody war against Marxist guerrillas in Eritrea province. Russian advisers and technicians number perhaps 1,000. Their task: training Addis Ababa's forces to use such sophisticated weapons as MiG-21 fighters and T-62 tanks-all provided by Moscow. The Cubans in addition have suffered 5,000 casualties, mostly against Somalia in the Ogaden...
...rivals also disagreed about South Yemen's role in the Horn of Africa. Robaye Ali, who had ordered 1,000 paratroopers to assist Ethiopia against Somalia in the Ogaden, did not want to use his soldiers against guerrillas in the breakaway province of Eritrea. Ismail...
That situation could change drastically if Cuban troops were to be drawn into the civil war between the Ethiopian regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the well-armed secessionist rebels of Eritrea, or if Cuban units should find themselves in pitched battles against South African or Rhodesian army units. If the amount of Cuban blood spilled in Africa should increase dramatically, Castro might have to resort to officially conscripting soldiers for African duty. Privately, a number of Cuban officials admit that their routing of the Somali invaders of Ethiopia last spring was a walkover, but that there are no more...
...Soviet Union, which has provided Mengistu's regime with nearly $900 million in military assistance for his wars against Somalia and secessionist rebels in Eritrea, has not done anything remotely comparable to alleviate the internal catastrophes. As usual, it is Western nations working with the FAO that are providing emergency aid to feed starving Ethiopians by airlift before rains make the affected provinces unreachable. The U.S. alone has contributed nearly $2.5 million in the past six months to help Ethiopians...
...convinced that Leonid Brezhnev wants to reach such an agreement, and his time is running short. They also think the Russians are as uneasy as either the Americans or the British themselves would be at the thought of being drawn into an African military quagmire, be it in Shaba, Eritrea or Timbuktu...