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...after the Scheersberg A showed up empty at Iskenderun. They developed evidence that the cargo had not vanished in a hijacking: the uranium was shipped by a firm that knew it would never arrive at its destination in Italy. The firm was a now-defunct German petrochemical company called Asmara Chemie, and it had purchased the uranium-which was mined in what is now Zaire-from the Belgian mineral firm Societe Generale des Minerals. Asmara Chemie had no previous record of buying uranium at all -let alone $3.7 million worth-but on March 29, 1968, Asmara signed a contract...
...fighting in the province's north central region. Variously supported by such Arab states as Syria, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, the guerrillas would doubtless fall to fighting among themselves were they not determined first to defeat the Ethiopians. Mengistu's troops still hold the Eritrean capital of Asmara, but they can only resupply it by air or by twice-weekly convoys from the Red Sea, which are often ambushed or sniped at on the way from the port of Massawa to the city. The rebels have long since cut off all land routes between Asmara and the rest...
...that was left of a U.S. presence that once had numbered some 4,000 advisers, diplomats, technicians and family members were 76 staffers and five Marine guards at the U.S. embassy and the Agency for International Development in Addis Ababa. The regime also closed down six foreign consulates in Asmara, the Eritrean provincial capital: those of Italy, France, Belgium, Britain and Sudan, as well as the U.S. Evidently Mengistu did not want nonsympathetic foreigners in a position to observe the latest phase of his drive against the rebels-an advance by thousands of civilian militiamen equipped with old-model rifles...
...Union by all accounts agreed to supply Mengistu's regime with some $100 million in arms. As one State Department official observed, "They couldn't be taking Soviet money and keep walking around in our G.I. fatigues." Although the U.S. has a major radio relay station outside Asmara, Washington had planned to shut down the facility in September and turn its functions over to satellites...
Under a searing African sun last July, Eritrean rebels burst into a U.S. naval radio station near Asmara, Ethiopia, and seized Steven Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...