Word: harar
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...bombing raids on the Somali city of Hargeisa and the port of Berbera, where the Soviets had a missile and naval base until the Somalis ousted them last year. The offensive began last week when Ethiopian armored columns, spearheaded by Soviet T-54 tanks, poured from the strongholds of Harar and Dire Dawa. Air cover was provided by MiG-21s and American-made F-5s left over from the days when the U.S. was Ethiopia's chief arms supplier...
MADAWEIN, Ethiopia--Ethiopian air and artillery forces heavily bombarded Somali positions along the Ogaden battle front, driving the Somali troops from strategic positions on the road to the Ethiopian outpost at Harar...
Since November, Ethiopian troops have held the Somalian soldiers, just short of Harar, where Ethiopia has amassed its new Soviet weaponry for a counter-offensive it hopes will reverse the losses of the last six months...
...Somalia, overran most of the Ogaden, in what Somalia claims is a liberation war to clear out the Ethiopian "colonizers." Now the fierce but poorly equipped Western Somali Liberation Front is badly overextended, and Somalia claimed last week that Ethiopian forces had launched a major attack out of Harar, one of only two towns in the area that the Ethiopians hold...
...moment, the Ogaden war remains a stalemate, with Somali forces holding most of the disputed territory and maintaining pressure on the strategic Ethiopian-held towns of Harar and Dire Dawa. Most diplomatic sources in Mogadishu believe, however, that when new shipments of heavy Soviet military equipment already in Ethiopia begin to show up in the field, the tide of battle could well turn against the Somalis...