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...1930s and '40s, the sands of northeast Africa were a cockpit of conflict between rival European colonial powers, chiefly Britain and Italy. Today, in both Eritrea and Ogaden, the central issue is the integrity of national boundaries, v. self-determination by individual provinces or tribal groups. The Ethiopians are resolved to retain the territory they acquired during a century of expansion. The Eritreans, whose land was an Italian colony until 1941, are fighting for independence; the Somalis are pursuing their dream of uniting the various Somali homelands under one flag. But these conflicts also have international significance. The Horn...
...balmy evening last week, a young man was flying his box kite in a posh residential neighborhood to the northeast of Santa Barbara, Calif. Suddenly the kite swooped into power lines, causing a short circuit that showered sparks and ignited the drought-dried chaparral below. Whipped by winds of up to 40 m.p.h., the blaze roared down the hills on a one-mile front toward the coastal city (pop. 73,000). Said one awed witness: "Homes went up with a huge whoosh and puff. Palm trees exploded like Roman candles...
...Alayan, as well as a training camp for African "volunteers" near Al Jaghbub, which was attacked by helicopter-borne commandos. According to Egyptian intelligence, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Gaddafi-in cooperation with Ethiopia and with Soviet support -planned to launch attacks on moderate governments all across northeast Africa...
...Northeast appears to have more than enough reserve electrical capacity, but there is a power squeeze in parts of the rapidly growing Sunbelt. In South Texas, for example, the requirement that utilities convert the fuel for their generators from natural gas to coal-at the same time that industry is converting from gas to electricity-often forces Houston Lighting & Power to buy power from other companies. Completion of two large nuclear power plants in Texas in the early 1980s is expected to ease the squeeze...
After New York's big blackout last week-in many respects a replay of the 1965 power shutdown that darkened eight states in the Northeast-that old Con Ed catharsis began working overtime. Federal, state and local agencies launched investigations of the power failure. Politicians and editorial writers howled over the fact that only three days before the city went dark, Con Ed's $200,000-a-year chairman had said he could "guarantee" that the chances of another blackout were remote. New York Mayor Abraham Beame summarily convicted Con Ed's management of "gross negligence...