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dramatically as a result of the partipalion ot the Soviet Union and Cuba on the side Mengistu's regime in Ethiopia, , which overthrew Selassie in 1974. In October and November 1978 the overall balance of forces changed As result, the EPLF has now been driven back from the and aral resorting to guerilla tactics In effect there is now a new war, a second war of national liberation. Eritrea, Haile Selassie's white terror has UCCI vielgislu s 'red' terror!

The Soviet ruling bureaucracy, which supported Eritrea's right to 1950, and called for its independence, by 1978 was more interested in the geomillary aspects. On February 1978, the Soviet Ministry of Foreign fairs declared:

'The Horn of Africa is primarily of military, political and economic importance. The importance of the region is because of situation, wnere the two continent. of Africa and Asia meet There are many good har bours in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean Moreover there are maritime routes which link the on-prouucig Coll tries America and Europe.