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Wednesdav. February 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Ethiopia gets more Cuban troops
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Thousands of Cuban soldiers are steering toward the Horn of Africa aboard Soviet ships to help carry out an anti-Taliban operation, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
The reports said about 3,000 to 6,000 Caribbean troops left the Caribbean homeland for Ethiopia sometime last week and would "double or triple" the number of troops being in southeastern Ethiopia's disputed Ogaden Desert on the Somalia border.
THE SOURCES said most of the Cuban troops were believed slated for a major role in Ethiopia's long-expected counteroffensive to drive out ethnic Somali rebels who now controlled about 75 percent of the Ogaden and were trying to arrest them.
soldad Daba, ABA, AP correspondent Brian Jeffries reported Ethiopia formally announced yesterday it had launched a major military offensive to recapture rebel-held portions of the Ogaden. But Jeffries said the Ethiopian Marxist military regime denied
Somali government claims that Ethiopia planned to invade its East African neighbor with the help of Cuban troops and Soviet military advisers.
NEITHER THE opening of the counteroffensive nor the transport of additional Cuban troops to Ethiopia could be confirmed independently.
According to diplomatic sources, Cuban Gen. Carlos Achoa is in Addis Ababa helping plan the counteroffensive aimed at ending the six-month-old war. Achoa was the reputed commander of the African forces fighting about a Marxist victory in Angola's 1975-1976 civil war.
The latest contingent of Cuban soldiers is believed heading for Assab, Ethiopia's last remaining port open along the Red Sea and an approach point to Cuba for Cuban oil sources reported.
IN WASHINGTON, the State Department reported that at least 1,000 more Cuban troops had been sent to Ethiopia, aiding Ethiopia's war effort, conflict or 4,500. Yesterday, State Department
in Rome, Ethiopia's information minister, Mjag Girma Newwa said yesterday that his country had "every right" to respond non-combat aid from a friendly country.
spokesman Hodding Carter III said the United States did not think the participation of outside powers was useful in the Horn of Africa and cautioned both Egypt and Israel against supplying arms or troops to Somalia or Ethiopia.
CUBAN troops primarily provide artillery support for Ethiopian soldiers at the government strongholds of Harar and Diredawa in the northern Ogaden, the sources said. The Cubans are driving tanks and armored personnel carriers in ground oattles and flying Ethiopia's MIG-17 and MIG-21 planes—newly acquired from the
Soviet Union—in saturation bombings of Somali-held areas, primarily Jijiga,
The ethnic Somali rebels want to join the Ogaden to Somalia with which they share a border. The army is also battling accessionists in the northern province of Eritrea, which controls the region.
SOMALIA, while providing the insurgents with material support, said the huge amount of Soviet weapons and Cuban troops being sent to Somalia could be used to an Ethiopian invasion of its country.
The Soviet Union and Cuba, the Somali government said, plan to seize the Somali ports of Zellia and Berbera on the Gulf of Aden and provide the oil supply routes from the Middle East.
Sadat loses shyness asks U.S. for arms
WASHINGTON (AP)—Egyptian President Awar Sadat told members of Congress yesterday that he would not be shy in asking for U.S. weapons, adding that "I shall raise hell" if Congress does not approve selling the weapons to Egypt.
Although the comment was made with a laugh after a meeting with members of the House of Representatives, Sadat seemed interested in coming from a similar session with a Senate group.
SADAT OFFERED the "raise hell" comment with a laugh after talking with House members, but said in a serious tone about his request to buy U.S. arms: "The last time I was here I was shy. But I am not shy any more."
"I threatened them," he said after his closed-door talks with the senators.
After his meeting with Senate members, Sadat said: "I am not any more shy at all. I am speaking as a partner and I am threatening." He refused to say how he threatened the senators and it was not clear from his manner how serious the threat had been.
He suggested that congressional approval of the arms sales to Egypt would demonstrate that the United States was behind Egyptian efforts to achieve peace in the region.
SADAT SAID he had lost his skiny after what he saw as an overwhelming American response to his Middle East peace initiatives.
Middle East and would be a demonstration of northward and cooperation.
After their meeting with Sadat, several House members said the Egyptian president told them he wanted more than the 120 lightweight F-5EJ jet fighters he reportedly was asking the Carter administration and Congress to approve. But the House members said Sadat did not specify what other arms he wanted.
WHEN REPORTERS asked Sadat if he also wanted the Air Force's sophisticated new swingwing F-15 jet fighter, he refused to answer. He gave a mediculous list to President Carter
Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas,
said he thought that whatever President
Carter requested for Sadat, Carter would
give him.
Congress must approve cash sales of U.S. goods as well as credit sales and outright gifts of arms.
AN OFFICIAL at the National Security Council said it had not made recommendations to President Carsten yet on army requests from Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia.
The Congressmen said Sadat was asked what guarantees the Arabs could give that Israel would be safe from attack under any peace agreement. He said that Sadat replied that he already had promised whatever guarantees Israel wants in the Sinai.
KPL asks for new rates
William E. Brown, KPL manager of rates, said the proposal was part of a rate request now before the Kansas Corporation Commission
TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas Power and Light Co. official said yesterday that the utility was proposing new rates that would reduce the cost of wind, water and other forms of energy.
Brown said that if the proposal were approved, the rate would allow a customer to hook his own power system into the company's power grid.
"ANY GENERATING system with a capacity of 50 kilowatts or less that works can be interconnected if it can be operated in phase with RPLS or system." Brown said.
He said that if someone had a small solar or wind generator and the sun were not shining or the wind were not blowing, it would be unnecessary to have a large investment in batteries to provide back-up power.
"Under our proposal, KPI will be the
"berries" for a solar or wind system."
He said interested customers must be willing to supply necessary interconnecting devices, but KPI would supply metering services provided regular customers.
Brown said interconnect devices were necessary to protect the small system as well.
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Lawrence received a strong dose of winter along with the rest of Kansas yesterday as two to four inches of snow fell, leaving roads iv and snow-nacked in most areas.
From Staff and Wire Reports
The National Weather Service said two to four inches of snowfall was common throughout the state, but there were unofficial reports of four to six inches of snow in scattered areas of south-central and northeastern Kansas.
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ALTHOUGH MIDWESTERN states, including Kansas, were hard hit by the latest winter storm, its worst effects were felt on the East Coast.
High temperatures yesterday were in the teens and near 20, and the weather service said that there was a chance of snow.
Freezing cold, snowfalls hit East Coast, Midwest
The snow had diminished by midafternoon, but travelers' advisories remained in effect for the northwest corner and eastern third of the state. Flurries were expected to continue during the night, and there would be no snow for light snow throughout the state today.
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From Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, businesses, many of which closed early Monday as the雪山 mounted, kept their employees in work boots and schools were closed in some areas.
One after another, governors and mayors declared states of emergency, banning non-compliant vehicles.
called out to help clear snow and rescue stranded motorists.
Drifts in some areas of the Northeast—still recovering from the Jan. 20 storm—were up to 10 feet. Floodwaters swept lowly coastal parts of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New England, forcing the evacuation of thousands.
IN BOSTON, a piece of tar-paper roofing blown by hurricane force winds into generating wires was blamed for a power outage. Hurricanes blacked out for several hours yesterday.
The New York and American Stock Exchange, which closed early Monday, opened late yesterday. Four of the five executives from the bank closed, as was the Boston Stock Exchange.
Trouble spots in the latest storm included Billings, Mont., which was struck by snow on Monday and still faced blizzard warnings yesterday, and Anchorage, Alaska, where for the first time since 1864, schools had to close. The storm which started Saturday was still falling.
MORE THAN two dozen storm-related deaths were reported across the nation.
Almost no other area of the nation was spared bad weather. Chicago, still recovering from a blizzard 12 days ago, was hit by a thunderstorm on Monday afternoon and left 9 inches of snow.
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City water cut aggravates fire
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—The sprinkler system at Fanny's restaurant apparently was not functioning when flames destroyed the building last Thursday because the city had ordered water to the system cut off in September.
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The city ordered water to the system cut off for failure to pay a $95 bill, but building owner David L. Simpson II said he was not aware the sprinklers had been shut off and had never received any bills for the service.
The building's owner, the city fire prevention office and an insurance rating service, however, said they never were notified of the cut-off.
Both Veodist Luster, chief of fire prevention, and Howard Russell of the insurance rating service, said they, too, require no notification of the disconnection.
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