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After Harvard denied tenure to Isaac--a scholar in Ethiopian language, literature and church history--in 1975, Isaac requested an EEOC investigation...
Estis said the chairmanship should be given to Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor in Ethiopian Languages and Literature and Church History, who was denied tenure in 1975. Estis added that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a preliminary report in December which indicated Isaac may have been discriminated against on the grounds of race (Black) and nationality (Ethiopian...
...Ogaden rebels fight on against Moscow's Ethiopian allies...
Karraro is an armed camp, almost devoid of children, women and the elderly. They were sent away to relief camps in Somalia last fall, after Ethiopian jets bombed and strafed the settlement, killing scores of people and hundreds of animals. Only about 300 of the settlement's 3,000 original residents remain, tending the livestock and carrying on the war against the Ethiopians and their Cuban and Soviet allies. "This is a town of warriors," said a grim-faced herdsman who, like almost every other man in town, had an AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder...
Officers of the W.S.L.F. boast that they control 80% of the Ogaden; they also concede that they have no hope of driving the Soviet-commanded force of 60,000 Ethiopian militiamen, supported by 6,000 Cuban soldiers, from their strongholds in Jijiga, Harar and Dire Dawa. "It is a stalemate," says Hussein Mohamed Nur, the slender commander of the liberation army in the region near Karraro. "They control the big towns, and we control everything else. They never come out unless it is in a big convoy with tanks and armored cars. Then we attack them and destroy many vehides...