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...West German Social Democratic Party, "then Mengistu might be able to accomplish his dream of making the country self-sufficient in food and improving the standard of living of his people." That is not likely in the foreseeable future. Ethiopia's standing army of 300,000 soldiers is the largest in black Africa, but it remains vulnerable to guerrilla actions. A lightning strike by the Tigre People's Liberation Front in February freed hundreds of imprisoned rebels. Government forces have met heavy resistance in Tigre and adjacent Wollo province. The Oromo Liberation Front, another secessionist outfit, has mined roads...
Mengistu has had more success against the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, the largest and strongest rebel force. More than 50,000 Ethiopian troops used tanks and dense air cover late last year to drive the Eritreans back to their stronghold in the war-ravaged town of Nakfa. The two sides are now stalemated. While the Ethiopians are wary of attacking Nakfa's warren of artillery-guarded trenches and barbed wire, the 25,000 guerrillas and their dependents must live an underground existence, though they have built an impressive infrastructure of schools, hospitals and farms...
Seven years ago, the Anchorage Daily News had surely endured its quota of lean seasons. Founded on a meager stake in 1946, the feisty, liberal-leaning paper had lagged far behind Anchorage's conservative afternoon Times, described on its masthead as "Alaska's Largest Newspaper." After being taken over in 1967 by former Chicago Daily News Editor Larry Fanning and his wife Kay, the Anchorage News turned out some spirited journalism but continued to decline. "In 1976," recalls Kay Fanning, "we won a Pulitzer Prize and went publicly broke...
...robust News published weekday editions averaging 102 pages last week. Meanwhile 400 news and business staffers hoisted glasses of Chardonnay earlier this month to toast the opening of a new $28 million headquarters. The News's circulation now stands at 53,000, making it the state's largest paper. The Times, forced to remove its masthead boast eight months ago, has slipped to 40,000 and has hired its seventh managing editor in seven years. Observes Frank McCulloch, managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner: "If you had asked newspaper analysts seven years ago if it could be done, they...
...uproar caused by blatant voting irregularities in Mexico's largest state, Chihuahua, reached all the way to the Rio Grande last week. A crowd of 5,000 Mexicans staged a 24-hr. protest on the Bridge of the Americas, the heavily traveled border crossing that separates Chihuahua's main city, Ciudad Juarez, from El Paso. They demanded that the official results of the July 6 elections for governor, state legislature and mayoral seats be nullified. The demonstration caused long delays for the estimated 600 semitrailers that cross the bridge daily...