Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of the House Interior Committee, Mo Udall has clout where it counts, and he used it. Last week he joined the contingent of irate Arizona officials, including Governor Raul Castro, who appeared in Washington to press the case for CAP. For 40 years, the state has been battling to tap the Colorado. Without the water, says Udall, with his customary flair, Tucson and Phoenix "are going to dry up and blow away...
...like some slapstick Pat and Mike show transplanted to distant Africa. Everywhere that Nikolai Podgorny went, Fidel Castro was sure to have been. Well, almost. After inviting himself to Zambia, the Cuban leader left the band, the honor guard, the artillery poised for its 19-gun salute, waiting at the airport. Sorry, Castro decided after taking off from Tanzania, I'm going to Mozambique instead. "He asked to come," said a bewildered Zambian official. "We said yes, and that's the last we ever heard...
Asked if the two Communist safaris were coordinated, since the Cubans have been regarded as the Russians' surrogate in Africa, a State Department official in Washington remarked incredulously: "How could anyone possibly coordinate anything with Castro?" His journey did seem ad hoc (he called up Nyerere only a few days before and asked if he could come), but it had a purpose, and that purpose fitted in with Russia's own intentions. Africans viewed his country hopping along the borders of white-ruled southern Africa as a psychological gesture of defiance aimed at Rhodesia and South Africa...
Cuba's wandering minstrel of anti-imperialism, Fidel Castro, last week flatly denied that any Cuban soldiers were involved in the fighting. Western diplomats agree that there is no firm evidence of Cuban involvement. But there is speculation that the Katangese-who are purportedly led by General Nathaniel Nbumba, the former Katangese police commissioner-may have been trained by Cubans in Angola. Almost certainly, the Angolans and their Cuban allies tolerated or approved the invasion plans. Mobutu, insisting that the rebels are "led by Cubans," appealed for an emergency airlift of arms and ammunition from the U.S. to stop...
...Fidel Castro's trip raised disturbing questions about Cuba's intentions in Africa-and, more important, those of the Soviet Union. To some extent, Castro's trip was undoubtedly an exercise in extending fraternal greetings to African regimes that he regards as sympathetic to Cuban socialism. But Castro's views about "exporting revolution" are too well known to be dismissed lightly. And as the fighting in Zaïre demonstrated last week, a relatively small fighting force, trained in the techniques of modern warfare, has an enormous capacity to destabilize young and fragile nations...