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"Many, many times I get on a bus and a kid calls me lushi masriach.' Adults never say anything. But when I ask the kids where they got that name, they tell me they heard it from their parents. Where else?" Ms. Tadela came here from Addis Ababa in 1985. In her view, Israel has given the Ethiopians the short end of the stick from the beginning. "They sent us to live in some hole and said, 'Go study.' They think we're stupid, but I saw how the Ethiopians did in nursing school and how the Israelis did, and we were much smarter." A thin, attractive woman, Ms. Tadela wrinkles her brow in anger as she speaks. She asks, "How do you think we feel when we send our brothers to fight for the country, and then we find out that they've killed themselves?" But the revelation about the blood donations was the worst. "Of course the policy was be- cause of racism. They threw Ethiopian blood into the garbage. What is this, a second Germany?" Since the blood scandal came out, she says, "I feel like a dif- ferent person. I used to take all the patronization and every- thing quietly. Not anymore. Now I just can't stand Israelis, I hate them. That's the way I feel, and that's the way I'm go- ing to act." Asked what she wants the government commission of in- quiry to do, Tadela replied that there must be a change in poli- cy — Ethiopian blood must no longer be automatically dis- carded, but tested like everyone else's. Beyond that, she said, Health Minister Ephraim Sneh and Magen David Adom blood bank director Dr. Amnon Ben- David "have got to go." Asked if she thought future Ethiopian demonstrations would be as violent as the one in Jerusalem, Ms. Tadela replied, "That wasn't violent. That was nothing. If we don't have our demands satisfied, then you will see violence." ❑ The Political Alliance: Peas In A Peculiar Pod JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT T here was good news and bad news in Nation of Is- lam Minister Louis Far- rakhan's adventures in Libya, where he teamed up with Moammar Qadhaffi to forge a po- litical alliance reportedly aimed at influencing American foreign policy. The good news is that Mr. Far- rakhan's effort to enter the main- stream, which pundits presumed to be the goal of his Million Man March in October, was revealed as a sham by the comic-opera summit in Libya. The bad news is that Mr. Far- rakhan may not care. With an alienated, angry constituency that has every reason to believe that the nation's political leader- ship has abandoned them, Mr. Farrakhan's extremism, loony as it seems from a middle class per- spective, may have a certain res- onance in the nation's anarchic cities. Mr. Farrakhan's cozy rela- tionship with the erratic Libyan strongman tells us much about a man who actively shuns the mainstream; "legitimization" is the least of the Jewish commu- nity's worries as this curious character pursues goals that we only dimly understand. Last fall's march in Washing- ton was threatening to Jewish leaders because its success — the nonviolence of its participants, the powerful messages conveyed by many on the podium — seemed to suggest a new and broader role for Mr. Farrakhan, who conceived and planned the event. The Nation of Islam leader, who has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism, was filling a leadership vacuum .in .a black