Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam. When they look south, the Saudis are alarmed by the rising Soviet influence across the Red Sea in Ethiopia, where there are now 16,000 Cuban soldiers supporting the leftist regime in Addis Ababa, and about 1,000 Russians. The Marxist regime of South Yemen, which has occasionally made raids across the Saudi border, has an army of 20,000, backed by 500 to 1,000 Cubans and a small but unknown number of Russian advisers...
...about 26, plus an additional 83 operatives "in the field." The CIA also recruited a number of mercenaries, called "foreign military advisers" in deference to African sensitivities, to fight with UNITA and FNLA units. But instead of stopping the MPLA, Stockwell maintains, these efforts only spurred the Soviet and Cuban assistance that enabled Neto...
Before long, says Stockwell, Moscow decided to counter by supplying Neto's MPLA with sophisticated Soviet equipment, including 122-mm rockets and MiG fighters. Cuban troop movements into Angola increased sharply at the same time. To deal with the MiGs, in a "sanitized" way, the CIA traded 50 U.S. Redeye ground-to-air missiles to Israel for 50 captured Soviet missiles, but the Angolans did not use them effectively...
From the letter of Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology (May 15), I can see that we have few differences on the subject of May Day. I support the Cuban Revolution. It has meant enormous progress in many areas for the Cuban people, and it ignited a beacon of hope for the rest of Latin America. But I am unhappy that political prisoners remain in Cuban jails. Huber Mators was not jailed, as Bell suggests, for "expressing disagreement" with Fidel Castro. He in fact started an armed revolt against the revolutionary government. Nonetheless, he should be freed and permitted to leave...
...plane to land during a flight to South Africa. Mozambican troops surrounded the craft and opened fire, wounding Marcus and killing his brother-in-law. Although he has insisted that his flight was strictly for business purposes, diplomats in West Germany have speculated that Marcus might have been surveying Cuban and Soviet activity in Mozambique for the CIA and Israeli intelligence...