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...bloody anticolonial and civil wars, is quiet, but only relatively. The new military regime in Ethiopia is trying, without much success, to crush the twelve-year-old secessionist movement in the strategically important northern province of Eritrea. Last week, in the Red Sea port of Assab and the Eritrean capital of Asmara, fighting flared between the government and units of the 6,000-man-strong Eritrean Liberation Front, and rebel bombs and grenades exploded in crowded Asmara restaurants. With the government vowing to "beat back the bandits" (as it calls the rebels), fighting in northern Ethiopia will intensify...
...band of 120 men who range in rank from private to major. Though the council seems to be divided over exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should be solved by granting the province greater autonomy...
...Teferi Benti, 53, a career soldier who commanded the Eritrea-based Second Army Division. A hard-liner who can be trusted to follow the orders of Major Mengistu, General Teferi in his first order sent 7,000 troops to reinforce the Second Division, possibly for a showdown with the Eritrean secessionists...
...down in Eritrea province. Ever since, the men-Powers W. Case, 36, John W. Rogers, 50, both Texans, and Canadian Clifford James, 27, all employees of Tenneco, Inc., along with U.N. Geologist Matti Tavela, 54, an American working in Ethiopia-have been held. Their captors are members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which is waging a bloody secessionist battle. Tenneco has already agreed to an E.L.F. demand for $3 million in ransom, but the Ethiopian government refuses to meet another demand to release five jailed guerrillas. Meanwhile, the four captives survive mainly on a sour porridge called durra...
...pilot finally regained control of his plane and flew it back to Addis Ababa's Haile Selassie I airport. There the skyjackers were linked with the Eritrean Liberation Front, which has long been fighting to free Ethiopia's northernmost province. In 1970 two other Eritrean rebels attempted a similar skyjack. They were subdued by security men who neatly tucked towels on the seats behind the culprits and then slit their throats...