1975_03 The Daily Collegian March 1975

              2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN       Friday, March 7, 1975
Ethiopia's civil war could be disastrous to Africa
._ _ie Eritrean guerrillas win
their Qght for Independence from
Ethiopia, aa Is possible, the
break-up of the Empire Itself ls
on tbe cards. Paradoxically, this
• a greater disaster for
>». iC.l ol Africa, ln the long
run, than for the Ethiopians them-
Tbe Christian, Amharlc and
Tigrinya-speaking Ethiopian
people has led Its Independent
existence In tbe highlands of his¬
torical Abyssinia for two thousand
years, and lt Is a distinctive,
self-
lshed   i
Ethiopian state.
dander-dominated
Eritrean Liberation Front are
pursuing Independence, whereas
the Christian-led Popular Liber¬
ation Front's 5,000 guerrillas are
seeking ,only autonomy and a
Marxist-ruled Ethiopia. The two
organisations, though united In a
tactical  alliance  recently, have
other than the central government
In the past, and reflect the funda¬
mental division that has existed
unitary expansion lr
they are still only 23 000 strong,
against Ethiopia's 45,000 but ln
modern military equipment So¬
malia Is vastly superior.
Moreover, Its armed forces,
unlike most In Africa, are de¬
signed for regular International
warfare, not Internal security
duties. Somalia's 220 tanks out¬
number those of all other states
of sub-Saharan Africa taken to¬
gether  (Including South Africa).
vantage of Ethiopia's plight. The
country ls suffering from a
savage drought and famine at the
moment, and has fallen under the
displeasure of the more conser¬
vative Arab states because of
the brusque attitude of the revo-
Ethloplan Armed Forces
bogged down In Eritrea, Somalia
can now add numerical superior¬
ity to Its crushing advantage in
weaponry if It wishes to seize
Its claimed territories.
However good the Intentions ol
the Somali government, lt must
now come under strong domestic
pressure to seize what may be
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population, living ln the lowlands the future of the artificial Ha
to the north, east and south, is creation called Eritrea was f
largely Muslim or pagan, and has being considered,
only come sporadically under Ihe The military regime In A<
hlghlanders' control. Ababa   will   certainly   fall   I
The lowlanders, consisting of loses Eritrea, and on that ^rc
groups   as different In language alone, quite apart from natic
and culture as the Danaklls and considerations. I! must fight
the  Callas,   were   largely Inde- Already half of the40,000-r
pendent   since the Middle Ages Ethiopian   Army has been cc
They were mostly reconquered by mltted  there,  and about a flft
the Christian hlghlanders only ln ihe   modern   comhai  strengtt
the later  nlnetheenth century. In Ethiopia's   modes!   and  rati
the    case   of  Ihe  Muslim   low- dated air  force has hoen los
landers of Eritrea, indeed, they the   SAM-7s    of   the   guerrll
passed directly from Egyptian to fwho are strongly hacked hy sc
Italian rule, and wereonly handed Aral
and 11-28 bombers. The great
bulk of Its equipment Is Soviet -
and   ls   serviced by some 2,500
1973 11 has reportedly been te-
(Includlng F-100 Super Sabre
fighters and Skyralder bombers
from-Saudl Arabia).
malla will necessarily lake ad-
A slide show
pottery will be si
the   College   Unl.
*The African Queen* and *
e Waterfront* will be showr
e  College   Union  Lounge a
Hen Cackle [nn will open al
8 p.m. In the College Union Col-
fee Shop. Admission Is 91.
Davis: In need of a united movement
against Somali
l.Lilly 'I'
l   would   cut   them        virtually unique amongst African
even the Christian hlghlanders of in   1964 Somali
Eritrea,  comprising half the 2.T.       fought   a brief lie
ted from page
1)
d which we can
likely
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■ DAVIS: The mast obvious one I
irst hand what Ihe
outhern Africa Is.
r solidarity no only
only In demonstra-
ough very concrete
ion   In this respect.
s Jus
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talnly Black people and other
people of colour are the first
and worst victims of that crisis.
The unemployment situation Is
very severe with 6.5 per cent,
according to official statistics,
out of work. Now if you compare
this with the unemployment rate
in the Black community, which
Is something like 11.7 per cent,
tl illustrates the dimension of
suffering that our people are
going through. Further, these fig¬
ures do not Include all the various
people who have been unsuccess¬
fully looktng for work so long
that they Just stop reporting at
the employmentofflce.lfyouwalk
down the street of a Black com-
?rs; and for-
s exploiting
ley should be
o Ihe
xir Impressions and did
n anything from the con-
■ DAVIS; It was one of the rr
tremendous experiences I h
had  and I   was really very
for quite sometime. First
,  I   I
was very surprised, for <
In the Congo Republic, going Into
areas that were relatively remote
and finding that the political con¬
sciousness of Ihe people was so
developed. In fact, I didn't realise
that there was such a huge cam¬
paign all over Africa when I was
on trial, because wherever I
went people recognised me.
All In all, It was an Inspiring
experience because often we tend
to be too provincial In ourstrug-
gales and In our attitudes. When
we are waging a struggle at home,
at one particular place at one
particular time, we might ex¬
perience a defeat. However, If we
look at It within the context of
the struggles that have been
achieved in Africa; the fantastic
advances that have been made by
our sisters and brothers in most
Independence and have made it
clear thai they want nothing todo
with    imperialism;    and    those
that
I look a
these victories we see that the
whole pattern of history Is mov¬
ing In the direction of greater
and greater blows against Im¬
perialism, lt ls only a matter of
time, and only a matter of esca¬
lating our own struggles, before
the peoples of thts globe are
finally freed, and thts was the
message which 1 got from my
trtp to Africa.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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Friday, March 7, 1975      THI DAILY COLLEGIAN-3
The Slave^Ship
ie were chained to the boat
n said we smell
Tbe stuff got in my eyes and I could not si
note: the author of the above, Jimmy Ricks, is a
n High School. This poem clearly illustrates
s ol today's eiack youth, and their knowledge of
NAACP integration settlement
A federal Judge asked attorneys
for the San Francisco Unified
School District and for the
NAACP yesterday to try to settle
their school Integration case out
fore a hearing scheduled in U.S.'
District Court to review tha In¬
tegration  plan   for  San   Fran-
school to achieve racial balance. "I don't know what you mean by
NAACP lawyer Ban James aald 'safety and welfare' or 'mental'
at yesterday's court hearing that health/ • James said. "A person
ha   waa   concerned   that Lhasa might have mental health proc¬
eed rather broad lams because ha bad to go to
there were no definitive crt- school with a parson whose skin
a. waa a different color."
sophomore
the level of
Iheir past.)
A month ago, U.S. District
Judge Robert F. Peckham warned
the board tt must tighten Its
transfer policy or he would allow
an action by the NAACP aimed
at forcing Integration to proceed.
On Tuesday night, the school
board adopted a resolution tight¬
ening district policy of giving
students temporary attendance
permits (TAPS) so they could at¬
tend their regular local school,
be bused to another
Reggae' — Jamaica's unfinished soul
Hy Randy X. Chang
,,nd Walter A. Robinson
males Is a fascinating mlx-
of African and West Indian
re   A   place  where water-
t   kids   i
itar makes when a Jamaican
ims It.) It ts very Important.
t.»Hps the reggae time . . .
••c-ag ■ - skang-ag, seems to
-• sophistication.
"Hock Steady," the new music,
■ -verythlng on the line at once.
ims and.guitar: there was no
-  i>< and the beat pressed to a
entrated     sexuality.    Rock
'■•■idy is perhaps the slowest and
>st deltberate-tempoedpopular
-usic  within  memory.  But the
obiess of*new*Klngston(1966)
"ildn't be fully expressed in the
Mmpie   grind   of  Rock Steady.
A more complicated structure
-olved to carry the weight ofthe
' rics, which were Increasingly
finical. Songs like "Burning and
-wiingTonlght." Sensuous music
"intrasted   with cutting lyrics.
Bui  to most ears the resultant
■ ?sgae (which may come from the
street word "skaggae," meaning
loose daughter orprostltute)atlll
sounds unfinished.
Alton Ellis says. -You bring a
reggae to an American or English
producer and they say, 'That's a
good demo man . . . Where's the
rest of the music?' That's be-
f of w
loaches   from blue moun-
ul full of sports' and where
:« music and curried goat
special meaning.
rr years poor Jamaicans en-
itnad ihemselves In street
vals hy singing and dancing
• i "memo" and "Pocomanla*
e madness). Trinidad Is
sands of miles away across
Caribbean and so calypso,
nad spread to many of the
i. j Besides,
ki moody tobeopentocalyp-
ncurable optimism. A little
i ba*   and   "merengue*   fll-
uver   from  Cuba,   but   lt
very    compelling  stuff.
in the middle fifties, WINZ
WMBM, two Miami radio
ma. started beaming
in and-blues   music.   Rude
in the trenches of West
■ mm pinned their ears to the
..nd heard something In Fats
no s walking bass lines.
n the r
Before Independence In 1962, tlie
colonizing Britons did their best
to separate Jamaica into Iwodls-
tlnct groups: Uptown people (who
spoke *llk dls, man,* and played
soccer when they could get their
hands on a ball). It was like two
different countries. It still Is.To
find out what the uptown.people
listen to. check the British his¬
tory hooks, because the develop¬
ment  of  reggae  took  place al-
The
Sheriff was written and first i
corded by Bob Marley and the
Wallers, a leading Jamaican
group. Johnny Nash used Marley
tunes, "Stlrlt Up," *GuavaJelly,"
"You Poured Sugar on Me" and
■Comma Comma,* to make a lot
of money a couple of season ago.
On the surface it seems as
though Jamaican music was
shaped by things like geography
and htstory, but actually It Is a
nd, a trombone player
v people thought was too
for   hts  own  good. Dan
i   couple   of "bop licks,*
them to the "Pocomanla*
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Meanwhile, reggae music Is
only as far away as your local
record store. Jamaican, record
shops are friendly places. The
records are arranged according
to first names, the owners will
play the discs before you buy
them, and there are always people
hanging around to talk reggae
with. Almost all stores will order
records for you If the ones you
want are 'finished," *un,* "sold
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