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...President Mohamed Siad Barre last week sought to pluck a flower: the U.S. military assistance for which he has been campaigning for months. From Mogadishu, Barre ordered home 20,000 Somali troops who have been battling Ethiopians, and recently Cubans and Russians, in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia in support of ethnic Somalis living there. By playing the peacemaker and withdrawing his invasion forces from territory to which he had no claim anyway, Barre satisfied a Washington condition for receiving defensive weapons to protect himself against the troops now sweeping toward his borders...
...between Ethiopia and Somalia in the Horn of Africa ground grimly on last week. On the battlefield the Ethiopians and their Soviet and Cuban advisers, who are now thought to total about 6,000, were clearly gaining in their drive to oust Somalian forces from Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. But if the Somalis were running scared, there was little sign of it in their capital, Mogadishu. The mood was all but jubilant, as the government announced a general mobilization and inducted 30,000 volunteers, including women and 15-year-olds, in a national militia...
...Ethiopia, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, leader of the ruling Provisional Military Council in Addis Ababa, was directing his anger at Washington. During a government-sponsored press tour (see following story), Mengistu accused the U.S. (falsely) of indirectly supplying arms to Somalia. At week's end an American delegation led by David Aaron, deputy director of the National Security Council, arrived in the Ethiopian capital to urge Mengistu not to burn his remaining bridges with the U.S. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood was in the Ogaden. His report...
...pressed its drive in the Ogaden, Ethiopia's regime launched another campaign on an entirely new front: world opinion. Having virtually closed the country to foreign newsmen for months, Mengistu's government suddenly invited reporters from Western and East bloc news organizations to come for a ten-day visit. More than 90 correspondents turned up last week for what was billed as a guided look at the war and the Marxist government's revolution at home...
...that turned into lengthy Marxist lectures. That was not surprising. The tour was being guided by two outfits that run the Marxist indoctrination program inside the country, the Ethiopian Revolutionary Information Committee (ERIC) and the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs (POMOA). Explained one official: "Ninety-five percent of Ethiopia is illiterate, and this jargon stuff is designed to try to communicate some very complex ideas to them. I'm sorry it's being used on you as well." The argument did not go down well with a disgruntled Soviet correspondent, who might have been expected...