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...joining the chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison in early 1974, is now editor in chief...
...most prestigious decoration, the Legion of Honor, was given to 1,500 men and women, including venerable (77) Film Director Rene Clair and Feminist Writer Louise Weiss, as well as a pop singer, a swimming champion, a truck driver and a physical-education teacher in Brazzaville, capital of the Congo Republic...
...west coast, for example, Guinea has been a faithful ally of Russia since 1959. Soviet naval units call regularly at Conakry's fine harbor, where they stock up on fuel and supplies for mid-Atlantic patrols. The Red fleet also regularly puts into ports in the Congo (Brazzaville) and Equatorial Guinea. On the east coast of the continent, Soviet planes and warships use bases in Somalia from which they patrol the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz, which leads to the oil-rich Persian Gulf. At Berbera the Soviets are completing a sophisticated installation capable of maintaining...
...suffered setbacks almost as dramatic as their gains. After the 1966 coup d'état in Ghana ousted Kwame Nkrumah, Moscow lost nearly all of the influence it had carefully cultivated with that country. The Soviets were also badly burned by changes of regime or mood in the Congo (now Zaïre) and, most notably, Egypt. In Mozambique, Moscow has lost out to the Chinese: Peking has been more generous with its aid, and, unlike the Soviets, can claim to be part of the developing world. The Mozambicans, for instance, have denied port facilities to the Soviet navy...
...advisers or troops to Angola, and Washington's goal has been not to win a war but to provide the anti-Soviet factions with only enough help to fight the M.P.L.A. to a standstill, thereby encouraging a negotiated settlement. Explained a senior U.S. official: "If this were the Congo in the early 1960s, we might be able actually to turn the situation around militarily. But our wings are clipped in too many ways. Now the best we can hope for is a holding action...