A9 Ethiopia's ties to Christianity are 1,600 years old, an 12 years of Marxist rule seem barely to have dented that attachment.

Indeed, 12 years of Marxist rule appear to have barely dented Ethiopia's 1,600-year-old attachment to Christianity.

Yet, he argues, were free elections ever to come to South Africa, the bulk of the black majority would balk at endorsing Marxist rule.

The Administration and the members of Congress who have supported Nicaragua's liberation from Marxist totalitarian rule learned long ago that Sandinista promises are worthless.

The unraveling began with Benin, a sliver of a West African country that had been under military-type Marxist rule for 17 years.

They view such cooperatives as symbols of Marxist rule, and hence legitimate targets.

When Angola gained its independence in 1975 and came under Marxist rule, Scouting was banned by that government.

The Ethiopians, then under Marxist rule, followed suit.

Life became easier after the end of Marxist rule in 1991, the Rastafarians here said.

Here and elsewhere in Africa, the Pope has been heartened by the demise of Marxist rule that fostered repression of the church.