Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuba and Angola should not bear any responsibilities for the so-called invasion of Shaba by Katangese rebels. What Jimmy Carter fails to realize is that Africa is determined to wipe out completely Western domination of the continent. Cuba has the blessing of Africans, especially the younger generation, and anyone who opposes Cuba in Africa digs his own grave...
Finally, I agree with Solzhenitsyn that the East should not model itself on the West. But that is not the issue in world politics today. The issue is whether the people of the Soviet Union, of China, of Cuba and of the other totalitarian countries can win the right to decide for themselves what model they wish to follow. Fundamentally, this is an issue of human rights, of freedom. In the struggle to win these rights, no voice has been more eloquent or effective than Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Skepticism about the Carter Administration's charge of deep Communist involvement in the invasion of Zaïre last month was also voiced by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Chairman John Sparkman said the evidence that Cuba had trained and equipped the Katangese rebels was "circumstantial" and "substantial but by no means conclusive." Senator Jacob Javits was the only committee member who seemed fully satisfied with the Administration's contention last week. Though the evidence produced by U.S. intelligence has not been made public, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter has learned that it includes transcripts...
...Administration was fully aware of African criticism of the Western role in Zaïre, and of the danger that the Soviet Union and Cuba might respond to the creation of a pro-Western African force by trying to assemble a radical African military power capable of causing serious mischief in Rhodesia and other trouble spots. The Administration also realized that in underscoring its opposition to Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, the U.S. must not appear to be embracing the policies of South Africa and Rhodesia, whose governments have quietly hoped that the recent troubles in Zaïre would...
...Roman Catholic Church, which represents half the population of Angola, has accused the government of violating constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms. The church complains that children are being sent to other Marxist states for education. About 60 young Angolans are in Cuba to study citrus-farming techniques, and 150 more attend schools there to learn both Spanish and Marxism-Leninism. The protests have provoked government jitters. Angola's principal newspaper, Jornal do Luanda, recently called for a "struggle against rumors and rumormongering" that might prove "destabilizing." And the death penalty, which was abolished by the Portuguese a century ago, has been...