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Third World dictatorships had their First or Second World patrons to help maintain borders and thwart secession. Only as long as the Kremlin armed Ethiopia was Mengistu Haile Mariam able to cling to Eritrea and his own position in Addis Ababa...
...every side today ethnicity is breaking up nations. The Soviet Union, India, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, are all in crisis. Ethnic tensions disturb and divide Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Cyprus, Nigeria, Angola, Lebanon, Guyana, Trinidad -- you name it. Even nations as stable and civilized as Britain and France, Belgium and Spain, face growing ethnic troubles. Is there any large multiethnic state that can be made to work...
...tanks and tear gas are easier to master than modern culture, especially for a people who revere silence and modesty. Says Addisu Messele, chairman of the United Ethiopian Jewish Organization: "I love Israel, but Israelis are very aggressive and loud and impatient." Says Leora Samuel, who emigrated from Ethiopia in 1984 and now counsels newcomers: "Basically, we have to learn how to use our elbows...
...village school in the Gondar province, hauling away suspected rebels. "I cried and cried when I first got here," she says. Now she works at a child-care center in Ashdod and refuses to teach her three children her native language. "I don't want to even think about Ethiopia," she says. "There was too much suffering." Her sole indulgence in the past is listening to Ethiopian music on her tape player, which offers the only safe passage back to the thatched hut of her childhood...
Under a new regime, are unity and democracy possible for Ethiopia...