}124787      ETHIOPIA/STORY 1: Report from Ethiopia where US backed
15.2.84      rebels fighting to win independence for northern provinces
Tx           of Eritrea and Tigre make new advances against Soviet
             backed militiary regime.  Ethiopia is also suffering
             worst drought in the country's history which is affecting
             areas held by both govt and rebel forces.
             SMITH,DAVID                         VID ex ENG(ITN)/
                                                 LIB(ITN)
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ETHIOPIA     LMS     Five black workers hammering at stone floor in the
                     open

             MS      Communist poster PAN workers hammering
             MS      Statue of Lenin
             AV      Ditto

             MS      Sign in English 'PEACE LOVING FORCES OF THE WORLD
                     UNITE'
             MS      Second sign at road junction 'LONG LIVE THE ETHIOPIAN
                     REVOLUTION'
             MS      Sign 'REVOLUTIONARY MOTHERLAND OF DEATH'
             TS      People in mud huts (street of mud huts)
             CS      PAN faces of people in street
             MS      Man at a table selling food
             MS      Donkeys along street carrying sacks
             CS      Face of old man
             MA      PAN boy carrying oil drums
             MS      PAN girl carrying large pile of firewood

             MS      DAVID SMITH I/C at local market SOF: "Until a --
                     and stick."

             STILL   Fighter with GPMG

             GRAPHIC Map of guerrilla advances in Ethiopian war

Tigre        LMS     Several Tigre Guerrillas in )
Province             old lorry along dirt road   )
             MS      Guerrillas on lorry         ) R:31.5.83
             CS      Young guerrilla armed with  ) ITN
                     AK47                        )
             CS      Face of older guerrilla     )
             LMS     Guerrillas on lorry along   )

             STILL   Hungry baby

             GRAPHIC Ethiopian drought

 ?           GV      Large numbers of people sitting in field
             MS      Mother with children
             LMS     Sea of hungry faces
             MS      Mother with two children
             CS      Child's face
             MS      Old men's faces
             MS      Mother with crying baby
             LMS     PAN hundreds of people in small wooden shed
             MS      Sacks of flour from store
             MS      Flour handed to people
             MS      Mother with baby on back getting flour

             MS      DAVID SMITH I/C SOF: "The Americans have --
                     is about to."

             STILL   Cuban soldier

             GRAPHIC Ogaden

 Ogaden      GV      PULL BACK food convoy along mountain road
             MS      Lorries past camera
             MS      Ethiopian army conscription recruitment centre
             MS      Poster on wall PAN to more
             CS      Poster
             MS      Painting on wall PAN to NCO with new recruits

             TS      People sitting on ground
             MS      Flour handed out
             BV      Ditto
             MS      Girl with baby on back
             CS      Face of child
             CS      Child's head PAN to mother's eyes

             VIDEO ex ENG(Faulds)/LIB(ITN)
             TX'D:15.2.84/C4N
        Archive Tape & Cassette 19875  84/C4N/EE7243  30.42 to 36.15