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...midnight, but the shooting in Ethiopia's frightened capital (pop. 1 million) begins long before that. Shortly after sunset, armed members of the city's 291 kebeles (neighborhood associations) take to nearly deserted streets seeking "class enemies of the broad masses" -meaning opponents of the brutal Marxist regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and his military administrative council, known as the Dergue. Scouring slum areas of the capital, kebele patrols kick open doors of mud huts in search of objects that would prove subversive intent. Among them: typewriters and field glasses. Justice is often administered...
...Ethiopia's southeastern frontier with Somalia, Mengistu and the Dergue face the gravest threat to their despotic rule since they overthrew U.S.-backed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In and around the capital, the main opposition group is the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (E.P.R.P.), a Marxist organization, led primarily by students and young workers, that demands a return to civilian rule. E.P.R.P. has given the Dergue good reason to be nervous: it has assassinated more than 20 government officials, mounted at least one daring raid...
...editors not see that if they can deny Kissinger an academic position because, in their opinion, Kissinger has a "blatant disregard for human life and democratic procedure," those who also can be excluded from a university community are a conventional Marxist, a Vietnam draft evader, and a women's libber? After all, is violent revolution a "democratic procedure"? Is abortion a "blatent disregard for human life...
...exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp run by the Marxist, militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...know who Rosa Luxembourg is? If you do, a friend of mine will buy you an ice cream cone. If not, Elzbieta Ettinger-Chodakouska will enlighten you about this early 20th century orthodox marxist. Luxembourg wrote critiques of imperialism and revisionism and should be an interesting topic. The talk is scheduled for 8:00 at 10 Garden St but you have to call 495-8600 in advance for tickets...