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...LAST seven years, a group of Jews has been tortured, imprisoned, and executed because of their religious beliefs. They have been forgotten by a silent world and ignored by their fellow Jews. The Falashas, the Black Jews of Ethiopia, face a perilously uncertain future...
...regime, led by Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, began an armed conflict with Somalia and a bloody internal battle against rebellious property owners in Ethiopia's provinces: the rebels dreaded Mengistu's land reform program. Jews, historically the only minority group denied the right to own land, would have profited from the reform. The landed interests decided to destroy the Falashas rather than surrender their property. The landed Ethiopian resistance revived a superstitious anti-Semitism among the two million refugees it created; they blame the "evil eye" of the Falashas for the widespread misery. Violent attacks on the Jewshave resulted...
...attempt at bringing dignity, freedom and food to people always denied the first two, and often the third as well? But how many have been successful in breaking the bonds of subjection--certainly not Cuba, slave to Moscow; certainly not Chile, a wholly-owned ITT subsidiary; not Jamaica, or Ethiopia, or Gustemain. And the New Left and the civil rights movement and the Freedom Summer and Moratorium Day and SDS and smoking dope--what did they mean except this world stinks, and we've got to make it over. But the love wasn't strong enough to transform...
Since World War II, banners bearing variations of the hammer and sickle have been unfurled in 15 countries. The victory of Marxists in nations as diverse and far-flung as the Seychelles, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua led Richard Nixon to proclaim that World War III has already begun and that the other side may be winning. Without resorting to quite the rhetorical excesses of his former boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig uses almost every occasion he can to raise the alarm: "Moscow is the greatest source of international insecurity
...situation had changed. The Saudis felt threatened by a sequence of ominous events: the overthrow of the Shah of Iran (who in 1977 had ordered AWACS planes that fortuitously were never delivered); the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Ethiopia's increasing emergence as a Soviet ally on the Horn of Africa; Marxist South Yemen's attempt to overthrow the traditionally westward-leaning regime in northern Yemen. The Saudis began pressing for precisely the fuel tanks and bomb racks (Sidewinder missiles were added later) that Brown had said they would not get. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq, both Americans...