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Lots of advisers but very few prisoners in the Ogaden...
...week's end the Ethiopians were reported to have swept 20 miles to Babile and taken positions to the south and east of Jijiga, from which they had been driven last August. The Somalis admitted that their forces in the Ogaden were in a "tactical retreat," and on Thursday the Mogadishu government called for general mobilization "in the face of a threatened Ethiopian invasion...
...Somali border. The big question is: What will they do when they reach that frontier? One member of the Ethiopian junta told Wood: "I can assure you that Ethiopia is not going to invade Somalia." Nonetheless, the Somalis are fearful that the Ethiopians if they reconquer the Ogaden will not be able to resist the impulse to slice through northern Somalia...
...Thus the Ogaden, a wasteland traditionally forsaken by all but a few thousand nomads, has become the center of an international crisis. The Soviet Union, having lost out in Egypt and Somalia in recent years, is making a high-stakes play for Ethiopia. With its Communist help, the Addis Ababa junta (known as the "Dergue") has a strong chance not only of defeating the Somalis in the Ogaden, but also of strengthening its position against the Eritrean secessionists, whose guerrilla forces control most of that province. The Soviet press has attacked Somalia as a bastion of reactionary forces, even though...
Through all this, the U.S. has been caught in something of a dilemma. It is anxious to show its friendship to the Somalis, but is also reluctant to provide aid while they are involved in their Ogaden adventure, which is, strictly speaking, an invasion of a neighbor's territory. In Washington last week, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said: "We have received assurances [from the Soviet Union] that the Ethiopians would not cross the border. I hope and expect that [these assurances] would be carried out." He added that the U.S. would reconsider its policy of not supplying...