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...people of the gun. In Ethiopia, they have trained the country's entire security force, including commando units operating against Eritrean rebels hostile to Emperor Haile Selassie. Israeli agents in southwestern Ethiopia direct airdrops to southern Sudan's black rebels in their fight against the Arab-run Khartoum government...
Even more startling is the fact that about 100 of the Sudan's Soviet advisers are directly helping the Khartoum government to prosecute its civil war against 6,000,000 black southerners. (The north contains 6,000,000 Arabs and 3,000,000 blacks.) The southerners demand autonomy within a federation, arguing that under the existing system they will never be given any real authority by the Arabs of the north; at independence in 1956, for example, the northerners grabbed off 796 of the 800 available government posts. There is, moreover, a long history of hatred between...
Soldier of Fortune. The southerners have received some modest foreign support of their own. In September 1969-about three months after Numeiry seized power in Khartoum and aligned the Sudan more closely with Egypt-the Israelis began parachuting arms and supplies from an unmarked DC-3 to Owing-ki-bul. The DC-3 apparently flies in from either southwestern Ethiopia or northern Uganda; Israel provides extensive aid to both countries. Because the Khartoum government has allowed Ethiopia's Eritrean rebels to cross the Sudan while returning to their own country from overseas, Emperor Haile Selassie has permitted the southern...
Late last year Steiner was captured by Uganda police while spending a few days of unofficial rest and recuperation outside the war zone. After three months in a Uganda jail, Steiner was secretly turned over to Sudanese authorities. He is now in prison in Khartoum, where his fate will be settled by still another group of foreign Communists. The case against him is being prepared by some of the 50 East Germans who advise the Sudanese Interior Ministry on security techniques...
Unbreakable Bones. As Penn began casting about for a white actor to play Old Lodge Skins, he considered Sir Laurence Olivier (who presumably would have dug up his old betel-nut makeup from Khartoum), and eventually offered the part to Richard Boone, who turned it down. Then Gene Lasko, associate producer of Little Big Man, happened to see Smith! and immediately dispatched a script for the chief to read in Vancouver. Says Dan George, in his measured English: "I saw so many lines and dialogues, I got scared. I called Gene Lasko and told him it was too much...