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...taxing Mengistu's government and its Soviet mentors both militarily and economically. More than 30% of Ethiopia's $1.2 billion budget is allotted to the army and air force, and conscription has been introduced to bolster recruitment for what is already the largest army in sub-Saharan Africa. When Mengistu visited Moscow last year, the Soviets asked for repayment of at least part of the $2 billion they had loaned for arms. The Ethiopian leader reportedly just shrugged his shoulders and told his hosts that his country could not pay. Indeed, it cannot. Ethiopia's export earnings...
...would make a long-term commitment to general education "much more difficult." In fact the Core has simply re-defined liberal arts education and a core curriculum to mean acquaintance with the methods of the various academic disciplines From "Principles of Economics" to "Sources of Indian Civilization" to "Sub-Saharan African Civilizations" to "Politics. Mythology and Art in Bronze Age China" the Core curriculum offerings read more like a mini-smorgasboard of the more extensive departmental offerings than a coherent view of "articulate educational priorities." Far from liberating students, such a curriculum makes them selves of the techniques for narrow...
...plunged into the harbor; at least one drowned. "It was crazy," said a Nigerian port official. "Fights broke out, and the police had a hard job controlling the crowd." Those who missed the first ship camped out amid gathering piles of garbage, grateful for the harmattan, a breeze of Saharan dust that blotted out the sun and kept temperatures down from the usual 90° F. Women nursed babies in the shadow of cargo sheds, while vendors of fruit, bread and illegally distilled local spirits set their wares out in the open...
...more fundamental reason for the fiasco, however, was the deepest split in O.A.U. history, which was also, at least in part, because of Gaddafi. Last February, he and 25 other leaders of radical and left-leaning African states engineered the recognition of the self-styled Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (S.A.D.R.) as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. That is the name used by the Polisario guerrillas in the Western Sahara...
Still, Gaddafi has failed to realize his real ambitions. He believes that he is Nasser's true heir in the Middle East and nurtures a dream of establishing an Islamic sub-Saharan republic stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. "My problem is I have no country to lead, though I am a great leader," he has complained. "He has a very clear idea of what he wants," says a U S Government official. "But as leader of only 3 million people, he has very unrealistic hopes of putting together a pan-Arab vision based on Nasser's dreams...