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Some 1,000 Russians and 2,000 Cubans arrived with the hardware, and they may not all be just advisers: both Eritrean and Somalian rebel forces claim to have captured Cuban combat troops. Underscoring Moscow's new urgency about the battle of the Horn, Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and Cuba's Defense Minister, arrived in mid-January, apparently to help Mengistu run his dual war against the rebels and his political opponents in Addis Ababa...
...Djibouti before independence, France beefed up the garrison with 1,000 extra paratroopers and legionnaires. The carrier Foch came steaming into the harbor, a symbol of both celebration and precaution. For a time after independence, the French will continue to guard the republic's frontiers against aggression (the Somalian border is only ten miles from downtown Djibouti, Ethiopia a mere 50 miles away). But diplomats here speculate that France will withdraw entirely if a major struggle erupts over Djibouti, rather than risk involvement in a Red Sea war. Djibouti's domestic deterrent force-600 soldiers, 1,500 border...
...South Africa. If Smith did have such a Machiavellian motive, he was apparently mistaken. A top aide said that South African Prime Minister John Vorster was "dismayed" by the raid, adding that "the last thing the Prime Minister wants is to see a full-scale Cuban or Nigerian or Somalian involvement to protect Mozambique." Already under fire from the U.S. and other Western powers for his government's apartheid policies, Vorster has enough trouble...
...John F. Kennedy accepted $30,000 worth of rare leopard skins from the government of Somali and had them made into a coat [Feb. 2] has been called to our attention. Mrs. Kennedy did in fact pay a private furrier for her coat long before the visit of the Somalian Prime Minister to this country, and she at no time received any gift of leopard skins from the government of Somali...
...Advice. The delegates served notice that secessionists will not be tolerated in the African countries, thus condemning by inference the rebel Biafrans of Nigeria; they also made plans to send a six-member delegation to Nigeria to offer advice on ways to end the civil war. Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somalian diplomats took the occasion to arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands...