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...been largely inaccessible to the Western press in the dozen years since he and fellow military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie. Muller had reason to hope he might be an exception. Eighteen years earlier, he and his wife Maggie McComas, now an associate editor at FORTUNE, had gone to Ethiopia to teach school as Peace Corps volunteers. Just as Muller was about to embark, word was passed along from Addis Ababa that the interview was on. He quickly rearranged his plans...
...Mengistu agreed to the exclusive interview that appears in this week's issue but the government also placed a Soviet-built Mi-17 helicopter at the disposal of the TIME group, which included Nairobi Bureau Chief James Wilde and Photographer William Campbell. They were given a glimpse of Ethiopia rarely seen by Western journalists. On a side trip to Holeta (pop. 3,000), 27 miles west of Addis Ababa, Muller met the current headmaster of one of his old schools. Reports Muller: "We were best remembered, apparently, for having brought the school a duplicating machine...
...VICTORY OF SOCIALISM IS INEVITABLE! proclaims the arch that leads to Revolution Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. That slogan expresses the aspirations of those who lead one of the poorest nations on earth. Torn by famine and civil war, Ethiopia (pop. 40 million) has been stumbling from crisis to crisis for more than a decade. Now under Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, who seized power in 1977 after the military ousted Emperor Haile Selassie three years earlier, the ancient African nation is using a complex blend of doctrinaire Marxist-Leninism and old-fashioned nationalism to address its most intractable...
...strategy are evident everywhere, from the prominently displayed statues of Lenin and paintings of Stalin in Addis Ababa to the controversial policies that are creating peasant cooperatives across the countryside. A new constitution, to be adopted later this year, will enshrine the Soviet-oriented ruling Workers' Party of Ethiopia as the "guiding force of the state and the entire society." Says a Western diplomat: "Under the new constitution, Mengistu will have more power than the late Emperor." Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Soviet, East European and Cuban advisers are stationed throughout the Ethiopian armed forces and government ministries...
...face of such realities, Mengistu, 45, is trying to fashion a policy that combines the rigors of socialism with capitalist flexibility. While he is moving Ethiopia toward a centralized, state-controlled economy, he welcomes private foreign investment. At present, most of the country's crops are privately grown and some industry is in private hands. Associates say that from the moment Mengistu became chief of state nine years ago, the Chairman, as he is known, has been a nationalist first and a Marxist second. Now Mengistu is reaching the zenith of his influence at home and abroad. "Ethiopia...