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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...record of Soviet efforts to influence Africa includes a number of expulsions and humiliations???in Ghana, Sudan and most recently Somalia, for example. In the Horn of Africa they acquired considerable political capital by helping the Ethiopians drive the Somali insurgents out of the Ogaden. But the war in Eritrea is a different matter. The province's secessionist movement, in the eyes of many nonaligned and radical Arab states, is absolutely legitimate, since Eritrea was unilaterally incorporated into Ethiopia by the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1967. Both the Soviets and, particularly, the Cubans are doing their best to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Countering the Communists | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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