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Health professionals warn that mass education to combat AIDS is not easily carried out in the developing world, where poverty and illiteracy are rampant. Even so, public-education drives linking promiscuity to the spread of AIDS are under way in several countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia and Haiti...
...country," says Gunter Verheugen, African-affairs spokesman for the West German Social Democratic Party, "then Mengistu might be able to accomplish his dream of making the country self-sufficient in food and improving the standard of living of his people." That is not likely in the foreseeable future. Ethiopia's standing army of 300,000 soldiers is the largest in black Africa, but it remains vulnerable to guerrilla actions. A lightning strike by the Tigre People's Liberation Front in February freed hundreds of imprisoned rebels. Government forces have met heavy resistance in Tigre and adjacent Wollo province. The Oromo...
...military problems in Ethiopia are compounded by unresolved conflicts with Somalia to the east and Sudan to the west. Sudan gives sanctuary to Ethiopian rebels, and Addis Ababa retaliates by supporting Sudanese guerrillas. Somalia has long been at odds with Ethiopia over the Ogaden, a hilly desert region of Ethiopia that juts deeply into Somalia's midsection...
...Ethiopia's deepest fears center on the U.S. The African nation's leaders are worried that the Reagan Administration may back rebel forces against Addis Ababa, just as it supports contra efforts to oust the Marxist-Leninist Nicaraguan regime. Yet officials in Washington, which provided $282 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia last year, say they have no wish to topple Mengistu. Notes a senior diplomat: "We've told the Ethiopians that we would like to engage in a serious dialogue with them. Every time we propose a place and a time, we are rebuffed...
...Mengistu, the message is clear. Though he could move closer to the Soviet camp, he cannot economically afford to break with the U.S. and the West. While Moscow supplies the weapons to combat Ethiopia's rebels, only the advanced industrial nations can provide the financial and technological assistance that the country needs to develop its supine economy. Given his Marxist philosophy and nationalist instincts, Mengistu seems determined to walk the fine line between East and West...