THE CONFLICT between впори впа остана, нас ану battle of daims and counter-claims. All that is clear the bulk of the Ogaden province of Ethiopia is in the hands of the TECT BUT CH wants the area ceded to This is setback for the Ethiopian dictatorship, the Derg. which has already lost control of all but three towns in Eritrea, the ed by Ethiopia in 1962.
The struggle in the Ogaden is a similar fight for national sell die, are Somalis, with a right to somar women somer in cano, win wooden thes affiliate to the nation of their The Echiopian and Somali begines are less than altruistic in their interest. For both, Ogaden strength and nationat pride. And that the sna cosen TeRion potentially rich source of oil and Thus far the issue is fairly simple. The complications are a result of the interest of foreign powers in the strategicaliy imporcant "Hor of Africa", of which Horn protrudes into the Indian Doean and the Gulf of Aden. providing an important spring board for control of the southern entrance to the Red Sea Imitary ETHIOPIA The explains standing Soviet interest in the area. For a number of years they have been the chief petical Kremlin's African allies increased Soviet Ethiopia, broke links with Megad tha would favour presence -an independent Eritrea.
CYNICAL gloss for Cubar 'Ethiopian Revolution' leader Mengistu Haile LLLE directed along lines" backers and military suppliers of the Said Barre regime in Somalin ded as the most faithful of th But teent months have seen influcace Somalia's bitter enemy. Earlier this year che Dera ils previous backer, the United States, and the USSR. Thence the present ludicrous situation where two urmies are crawo up in opposine martic Lines each with the same weapon- Members nationalists.
Another complication is the recent independence of Djibous. the tiny former French colony.
doubt that the majarity of its 25,000 inhabitants integration into the continued French militar: 0020147 83883 but Erhiopia would the sca, a consideration which is foresaw sharpened by the impending loss viled Cuban nice detona convenient ideologica nical Somet inter vetition in Ethiopia, Grano, the sarty paper, mak Saudi and its Mariam The Lie shoot-out on 3 February when Mengist wiped out an opposing Horn is the ioment when the left and the true leaders of the revolution revolutionary No mention of the absence of establish any democracy (either bourgeois Alone ma precondition for talking to lan Smith seminar was told by one natThe free enterprise system we are discussing now will on whether peaceful political settlement the continued strengh of the military activities coming independence will further galvanise the masses towards providing their awn solutions to their problems nationalists seem unlikely to be Either they will have to adapt or proletarian), the borrific mas sacres of oppositionists, the supnational minorities, or, no small matter, that, despite the sweeping land reform. nower resis In the hands of a fraction of the Whee the Kremlin made t foreign policy turn in the Horn it problems UPEE Laden, bur tea to cous up e compromise which would make it possible to ride the mucually Ethiapian regimos in tandem. The effer has been quite the opposite Dict Somalia was negotiating an Saudi other side of the Red Sea. It is Ess the aris merchants of the money which and Britain wha bave sepped into the hreach left by If the Soviet interest in the cynical and directly mass of people in the area, it is purely strategic and military The BEST BOOMER 85E backed by the brutal dictatorships in Iran and Pakistan, are out to SOURCES revolutionary bioc around the [sic) one vote is no longer a them subscantially or face exposing themselves by the use of repression against the very force who will have put them in power.
The number employment last population growth rate (al pre sent 3.6 percent future goerument of Zababu year)
faces massive problems in provi ding jobs and a real solution to question take place, the aftermath is unlikely to remain peaceful of the Ethlapian peasant army captured by Entrean Red Sea.
And, though Somalia itself is Saudi HE POW BE BE SaVE id programm offers another opportunity for the ins renalisis to get their hands on sode oil moacy through arms in building a pro-Bestish bloc ol states in Fast Africa, while thi 135 has been stepping ap arms supplies to the Sudan The Kremlin's mea/potirik, its desire to arm the petly bourgeois regimes in the Horn rather than support the struggles oppressed masses, can only help This imperialist acage In the midst of these glohai considerations, the democratic Ogaden - bave been all but forgorten.
FIFTY-TWO people were arrested and many injured at che weekend after the murder of a student by police last Friday and a han on a mass rally organised by the Soweto Commitree of Ten.
The Commitlee of Ten, which has the hacking of the Soweto Student Representative Council, is a hody to plan for an autano mous black-controiled municipa authority in the townships after the official Urban Hantu Counci! resigned whalesale two months адо.
Most members and supporters of the Committee stress that th aim is not a duplication of the mistration on behalf of the previous system the campaign againse Baalu, that is third class, starus in education The Government-controlled administration board has ser up ire own movinous Cartititte 11' which, apparents, "wonderful coopertion" orher hand, insisted on the rall planned for Sunday as a way o submicting people of Saweto and gaining a mandace for future negotiations.
WHERENCE CARE violence in which many scudent and incident is that shidents soned a police sergeant in a school yard who answered by opening Fire rel o eactice burtis into all But teachers and students classrooms, baron-charging thi occupants and serring dope an them, Some tried to escape jumping through second foo windows.
A Rand Daily Mail reporte visited stodents in hospital. On said: "I was in class on the secon Noor. The police dashed in, se dogs on us, and assaulted us. ran downstairs racid ran into the laboratory the staf My clothes WELC in bood, 1 ran out and escaped.
The acting Soweto police chief told reporters: 1 said at the weekend that police baiting bloady dancerous 1 meant it You can quole me if you like.'
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