European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday september 9, 1977 ethiopians somalis wage War Nairobi up heavy fighting was reported thursday near the embattled ethiopian outpost of Jijita with Somalia reporting 3,500 ethiopian troops killed and eight warplanes destroyed. A War communique broadcast by Mogadishu radio gave no Date for the fighting. Although it appeared to be recent Somalia claimed Only wednesday that no ethiopian troops were near the town after being beaten by the somalis. The communique issued by the Western somali liberation front said 3,500 troops from the ethiopian Side had died eight ethiopian aircraft and 20 tanks were destroyed. The announcement came just one Day after Ethiopia broke diplomatic relations with Somalia and ordered somali Diplo Mats to leave the country in 48 hours. The communique made no reference to the break. Ethiopia Calls it All out War the two countries had maintained the facade of having formal diplomatic relations despite three months of warfare be tween the ethiopians and the somali insurgents. Using its regular troops and air forces because of this aggression which is still in Progress ethiopian regular and militia forces have launched an All out War against the invading enemy in defense of the country s territorial integrity an ethiopian broadcast said. As a result the continuation of Diplo Matic relations Between Ethiopia and so Malia is pointless and valueless. In realization of this fact the Mac provisional military administration Council has decided to break off diplomatic relations with Somalia effective today the radio broadcast said wednesday. Formal War declaration expected the break in relations was widely expected to Lead to a formal declaration of War Between Ethiopia and Somalia. It was not Clear How the break would affect the soviet Union s relationship with the two countries. Somalia was once the soviet Union s closest Friend in Black Africa Moscow armed and trained its army and built a huge naval facility for its ships at the base of Berbera. Earlier this year Moscow began Send ing arms to Ethiopia when the marxist government there decided to break Ethiopia s traditional military ties with the . Somalia was deeply upset by the move and some analysts even attribute the fight ing in Southern Ethiopia in part to Soma Lia s fears of the ethiopians becoming militarily Superior to Mogadishu. Stolen Tea is recovered Singapore up police recovered about 231 tons of stolen Tea Worth about $1.5 million in raids on four warehouses. A police spokesman said two men believed connected with the theft were detained. An armoured vehicle manned by dutch military police patrols around the guarding school ruins smouldering ruins of a school in Assen the Netherlands after it was set afire and destroyed by rampaging South moluccas. A photo ago Lucians rampage in dutch town Assen the Netherlands a a wave of violence erupted in this Northern dutch town thursday As armed gangs of Young South Moli Mccans set fire to two schools and wounded a policeman with a burst of gunfire. Trouble broke out in the Early hours of the morning As the moluccas rampaged through the town where eight of their com patriots Are on trial for hijacking a train and seizing a schoolhouse last May. Armed with Molotov cocktails the moluccas set fire to two schools and destroyed one of them. They also attacked other buildings including a Hall belonging to the dutch red Cross and then took shots at firemen called in to fight the Blaze. A 23-year-old policeman was hit in the stomach by a moluccan sniper and was rushed to a Hospital to have the Cartridge removed. His condition was described As satisfactory following an operation. It took police More than eight hours to get the situation under control and at one stage they charged and dispersed a group of moluccas heading for an old people s Home with Molotov cocktails. Children from Assen s 55 elementary and primary schools were sent Home again when they reported for morning lessons and municipal authorities said the schools would remain closed until monday for fear of further violence. When the moluccas eventually broke up they returned to the moluccan District in the West of the town and barricaded themselves in with Large pieces of Wood spread across the roads. Police at the scene made no immediate attempt to remove the barricades. Hundreds of extra police with armoured vehicles were drafted in to Assen at the be ginning of the week for the Start of the trial which is expected to finish Friday. Security was stepped up after the outbreak of violence and police behind sandbags and with machine guns at the ready guarded the courthouse in the Center of town. The mayor of Assen said the town would be sealed off completely if there was More violence. Troops stationed at nearby bar Racks have been on Alert since the Start of the trial. Moluccas staged peaceful demonstrations outside the courthouse at the Start of the trial which they have denounced As a  kenyans report mass killings in Uganda jail Nairobi Kenya a Sledge Hammer murders of some 180 ugandan prisoners by ugandan soldiers were re ported thursday by a kenyan newspaper quoting eight former inmates. The eight kenyans including four women told the English language daily nation they had been arrested by presi Dent Idi Amin s secret police april 9 while on a business trip to Uganda. Dylan he s a Changin Russ claim Moscow up Bob Dylan May have been a counterculture hero and Antiwar Singer in the 60s, but the soviet press says he s nothing More than a Money hungry capitalist now. The newspaper Litera Turnay gazeta said wednesday that Dylan in the turbulent years of the Vietnam War bravely uncovered the vices of the great society Dylan was openly making fun of legislators priests and militarists the news paper said. He glorified love and cursed War made fun of greedy pseudo intellectuals. He Sang about Neavy work killing people about Bow patriotism in America is Only under stood As Protection of the interests of the ruling class. That was exactly what the students and Young workers of the 60s wanted to  but the newspaper said Dylan succumbed to that old Bugaboo Money. It s hard to recognize today s Bob Dylan it said. The newspaper said the composer of such songs As Blowin in the wind and the times they Are a Changin dropped his old image and drifted into Rock and Roll. Once touted As a revolutionary form of Art Rock and Roll has turned into nothing but a commercial Enterprise the newspaper said. Rock and Roll apostles had been sign ing contracts with those they laughed at i their  it said they fell one after another into the Clever traps of music entrepreneurs. Bob Dylan also failed to escape the newspaper said. Many old songs of pro test that brought him Fame started disappearing one by one from his  the soviet press has Long shown its Dis like of Rock and Roll one newspaper portraying Elvis Presley in his later years As a burned out Shell of a Man exploited by show  newspaper labelled beatlemania mass hysteria and said such wild de Votion made youths receptive to advertising tricks and made them Pas Sive objects of spiritual  spokesman Robert Kamau said the eight were charged with spying and held for five weeks in a cramped jail cell on the outskirts of Kampala the ugandan Capi Tal. The jail was usually very quiet. But the Calm was shattered aug. 27 when a group of about 100 persons was brought in at 5 .," Kamau told the daily nation. Through cracks and keyholes in our cell we watched in horror As each was tied up and battered to death with a Hammer. Trie murders were committed by a Large group of soldiers who were not in uniform. Each victim was hit 18 to 20 times. The bodies were unrecognizable. They were pulp. It took a Long time the killings went on until about 10  And everything was quiet again. We Don t know what happened to All those  on aug. 28, another group of about 80 persons was brought into the jail Kamau was quoted As saying. Soldiers some of them youths repeated the killings and this time two women were among those hit repeatedly on the head until they Ware dead the spokesman said. The kenyans also told the daily nation that missing British born businessman Robert Scanlon arrested three months ago on spying charges and believed executed May be a prisoner at the Kampala jail