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Worst hit was the far northern province of Eritrea along the Red Sea, where the crop failure exceeded 80%. More than 40% of the harvest was lost in Tigre, 44% in Wollo and 35% in Harar, the Ogaden desert region that juts into Somalia. Altogether, nine of Ethiopia's 14 provinces are suffering food shortages...
...military problems in Ethiopia are compounded by unresolved conflicts with Somalia to the east and Sudan to the west. Sudan gives sanctuary to Ethiopian rebels, and Addis Ababa retaliates by supporting Sudanese guerrillas. Somalia has long been at odds with Ethiopia over the Ogaden, a hilly desert region of Ethiopia that juts deeply into Somalia's midsection...
...Soviet presence is more than matched by that of its surrogates. Some 11,000 Cuban troops, flown in initially in 1977 when neighboring Somalia invaded the disputed Ogaden region of Ethiopia, still guard the country's vulnerable eastern flank. East Germans are used to train Ethiopia's secret police. Several hundred more Soviet-bloc advisers are expected to be working in government departments and state-controlled industries by year's end. Says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Ethiopia represents Moscow's greatest success in Africa in more than a decade. It's a prize...
...inquiry into last year's slaughter of 10,000 of her own people in the fifth largest city. Hama? -- Where is the Jordanian investigation of the September 1970 Black September Massacre of 10,000 Palestinians? --Where is the Somalian account of the October 21 massacre of 500 in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia...
...State Department, had been too soft on the Kremlin. He said U.S. lack of response ,to Moscow's sup port of Ethiopia in its war with Somalia in 1978 may have prevented Senate ratification of the SALT II treaty. Said Brzezinski: "SALT lies buried in the sands of Ogaden." Retorted Vance: "Hogwash...