AFRICA: A Desert Duel Keeps Heating Up

Lots of advisers but very few prisoners in the Ogaden

The war between Ethiopia and Somalia in the Horn of Africa ground grimly on last week. On the battlefield the Ethiopians and their Soviet and Cuban advisers, who are now thought to total about 6,000, were clearly gaining in their drive to oust Somalian forces from Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. But if the Somalis were running scared, there was little sign of it in their capital, Mogadishu. The mood was all but jubilant, as the government announced a general mobilization and inducted 30,000...

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