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Nine days later Jimmy woke up. Recalls Pediatrician Paulette Harar at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where the boy has been since Feb. 28: "He would lie on the bed sucking his thumb, curled up in a little ball. There commands like 'Sit up' or Steadfast work with therapists has helped Jimmy regain control over movement, speech and thought...
...miracle recovery is not perfect. Doctors suspect that Jimmy had learning disabilities before the accident. They hope he will return to his previous abilities. "But," says Dr. Harar, "ask me if he'll ever read. Will he understand how d is different from b? I don't know...
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...
...trip last month to Ethiopia, to cover the fourth anniversary of the Marxist regime's military coup, French Photographer Bernard Couret was allowed to visit Harar province, the scene of heavy fighting in last year's Ogaden war against Somali invaders. Couret photographed military maneuvers in the area and came away with the first pictures that provide the West with documentary evidence of the substantial Soviet and Cuban presence in Ethiopia. Western intelligence sources estimate that there are perhaps 9,000 Cubans in Ogaden. Another 2,000 to 4,000 are assisting the Ethiopians in a bloody...
...latest round of heavy fighting, which began during the last week of January around Harar, the Ethiopians say they have lost 500 to 700 dead and 1,500 wounded and have killed some 2,000 Somali army regulars. The actual figures are almost certainly higher, but the Ethiopian claim to have taken only 17 prisoners is probably accurate: both sides expect their soldiers to die fighting, and each side claims the other has special squads to eliminate troops that surrender...