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According to the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Schwab and two U.S. Army engineers were on a routine 170-mile flight from San Lorenzo to Aguacate. Schwab was unable to maintain his course 25 miles inside Honduras' southern border with Nicaragua, possibly because of 30-knot winds, the embassy said. As a result, the pilot was forced to land on a rutted dirt road near the frontier. When Schwab and his passengers got out of the aircraft, they came under intense fire from Sandinista troops. The two engineers escaped unhurt...
Most Western countries, including the U.S., believed that the generals would maintain most of the previous government's external policies and were probably sincere in their desire to put Nigeria into better working order. The junta, however, has inherited Shagari's balance sheet and most of his problems. Food prices fell sharply, if temporarily, in Lagos last week. But it will take more than the announcement of a crackdown on profiteering to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production, as it had been until a few years ago. As for corruption, it has long been endemic in Nigerian life...
...soldiers act as proxies for the Soviet Union in Angola and Ethiopia; East German military advisers are present in Mozambique and Ethiopia. The regime of Ethiopian Chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam has paid homage to Moscow by erecting a statue of Lenin in Addis Ababa. Mengistu allows the Soviets to maintain a naval base on the Dahlak Islands in the Red Sea. Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, often with Moscow's backing, has emerged as the continent's chief troublemaker. Gaddafi has been behind unsuccessful coups in at least half a dozen nations from Gambia to the Sudan...
Under Houphouët-Boigny's leadership, the Ivory Coast successfully developed a mixed economy that encouraged foreign investment, local private owner ship and economic diversification. Unlike many African leaders, he assiduously en couraged a strong agricultural sector and spent the money necessary to maintain roads, rural electrification and irrigation systems. Houphouët-Boigny was also not afraid to keep strong ties with the country's former colonial master. There are more French in the Ivory Coast now than when the country became independent...
...overdramatize the crisis. It is serious, but it has not undone everything. Trade and all kinds of contacts have not been broken off. The Soviets value these as do the European countries and the U.S. in the sectors that interest them. We must maintain and reinforce these exchanges, exercising caution, but without seeking to use them as instruments of political pressure...