US takes Ethiopia's adoption of communist-party rule in stride
By , Special to The Christian Science Monitor  United States
officials do not appear to be immediately worried about the
Ethiopian regime's formation of a communist party and its
adoption of Soviet-style Politburo rule.  ''It's taken the Derg
five years to get this party organized. The military leadership
wouldn't have set it up at all if the Russians hadn't pressured
them, '' says a middle-level State Department officer.  ''It
won't change anything in Ethiopia,'' he asserts, ''unless the
Russians suddenly get generous and start giving the country
serious economic aid instead of more arms. We (the US) would
welcome that because famine is spreading in Ethiopia and more
food will be needed in the months ahead.''  Recommended: Could
you pass a US citizenship test?  Formal initiation of the
Workers' Party of Ethiopia took place last week on the 10th
anniversary of the military coup that deposed Emperor Haile
Selassie.  Despite Ethiopia's ties to the