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...Somali election was exceptional in one other respect: it was held in the midst of a continuing shooting war, the border conflict with Ethiopia. Last week Ethiopian fighter-bombers pulled a surprise daylight raid on the Somali town of Hargeisa-less than 17 hours before the agreed start of an armistice between the two nations. The Somalis, who like fighting as much as voting, were not too perturbed. As Prime Minister Shermarke observed: "We can teach Ethiopia that democracy can be practiced while people defend their soil...
...oppressive regime. Most of the refugees are young men (usually in their 20s or 30s) headed for freedom-fighter training camps, either around Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam or else in the Leopoldville Congo, where promising recruits are picked for intensive guerrilla and sabotage courses in Ethiopia, Egypt and Algeria...
...Communist newspaper for libel after it accused Gulf Italia of using improperly obtained government surveys to locate its oil. On the other hand, the prince is not inclined to fight needlessly when a deal can be made. E.N.I.'s pipelines and service stations stretch from England to Ethiopia, but the state monopoly is short on crude to fill its refinery capacities, which will soon reach about 21 million tons annually. Gulf, like its competitors in the Middle East, has an excess of crude petroleum to work off, and Prince Pignatelli reasoned that E.N.I, would buy some of the excess...
...horn of Africa, a man would cut a throat for a camel. Since Somalia won its independence in 1960, throats have been cut in plenty as lithe, black, spear-swinging Somali nomads crossed with their herds into neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia to fight over water rights and grazing lands. Last week the cost of a camel was approximately war, and blood spilled on the horn...
Last week the world's headlines once again were filled with coups and chaos, border clashes and broader questions. Bands of murderous Somali shiftas prowled the wastelands of Ethiopia and Kenya, sniping at trucks and burning police outposts. The Ethiopians retaliated by sending three fighter planes to strafe Somali border posts. Before the latest border incident was over, 58 had died on both sides, and Somalia was no closer to achieving its aim of annexing its neighbors' grazing land...