SMITH HUFFS AND Cuban troops out of Eritrea

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Mugabe split the Patriotic Front and join the internal settlement.

Such a split is the only hope Smith has of keeping any influence in the future of Zimbabwe.

The reality of the situation is that it is only a matter of time before the Patriotic Front comes to power.

Door open

It was significant that Smith in his broadcast, despite a lot of bluster •about "Marxist murderers", left the door wide open for more talks with Nkomo.

His sharpest hostility was reserved for President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania who he accused of trying to sabotage ous role being played by Cuban troops in the struggles of the Eritrean people against Ethiopian imperialism.

Two workers and a student who fled from the occupied city lașt month have reported the presence of at least 2,000 Cuban roops in Asmara, engaged in the battle to break the siege imposed by the Eritrean Popular Liberation 'Red terror' These exiles also detailed the eveni s of the 'red terror' unleashed on Asmara by the agents of the Ethiopian military dictatorship and its allies in the Stalinist bureaucracies of Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Executed

200 youth were rounded up and executed after two members of the terror squads had been assassinated in June.

In a later incident, the thugs of the 'red terror' claimed that for every one of their members assassinated, they would liquidate thousand' supporters of the liberation fronts.

But while the Derg has subjected the workers of Asmara to the same atrocities it has practised on Addis Ababa and the towns of Ethiopia, its armies have been repelled in their attempt to regain Keren from the EPLF.

Despite their MiG fighters and Cuban advisers, the Ethiopian forces have been compelled to pull back after three frontal attacks had failed to break the defences of the Eritrean liberation fighters. tri. state under the patronage of Jordan, or Sadat's view that the Palestinians could build their own bourgeois state.

The Zionists hope that their friend and ally King Hussein can be used once again to murder Palestinian liberation fighters who wish to continue their struggle.

Sadat, more intelligently, would like to rely on the Palestinian leadership to do this policing.

The great danger for the Palestinians remains that the loud words of denunciation of these talks from some of their leaders will be confused with opposition to the basic plan of a ghetto state.

The results of these talks are not clear as we go to press.

Whatever happens, however, the struggle against any ghetto state will go on, will the fight for the destruction of the Zionist state by mass mobilisation and military struggle and not by imperialist diplomacy, however rarified.

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