Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second Senate vote does not come at the best of times. The Soviet Union is rapidly building up its armaments and brazenly sending its Cuban allies into Africa to stir up trouble and challenge American interests. Many treaty supporters, including Senator Henry Jackson, are understandably concerned that a ceding of the canal may be interpreted as another American retreat. But the U.S. is hardly backing down from a Soviet threat; it is rising to the occasion of settling a dispute with an ally. If it is a sign of weakness to capitulate to an enemy, it may well...
...President's keynote speech in Lagos. In that well-intentioned address from the Nigerian capital, Carter called for a fair and peaceful transmission of power from the governing white minorities in southern Africa to black majorities; at the same time he issued a tough warning against the growing Cuban and Soviet presence in Africa. To the dismay of Administration officials, the speech got a lukewarm reception from many of the listeners for whom it was intended. Even South Africa's leading black paper, the Johannesburg Post, buried the story on an inside page and did not bother...
Finally, Carter turned off much of his African audience in Lagos by mixing an appeal for human rights with a warning against the Cuban influence. As the black Africans readily understand, every member of the United Nations has the right to ask for foreign military assistance, which the U.S. has often provided to clients of its own choosing-notably Kenya, Sudan and Zaire. Many black Africans fear that the U.S. is unable to distinguish between Communist-backed but legitimate liberation groups and committed Marxist revolutionary movements. Asks one Mozambican leader: "What are you Americans fighting here anyway-Cubans or white...
...ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA conflict this past winter received more press coverage than any other clash in Africa. The Horn of Africa is undoubtedly a hot spot--not solely because Cuban mercenaries bolstered the Ethiopian regime's fight against the Somalis and Eritreans as the cover of Newsweek last week would suggest. But because the area is politically and militarily strategic for a multitude of countries--not least of all Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran. For many Americans the Horn has become yet another conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union staged on third world terrain. This impression alone...
...NEWSWEEK'S latest They're In Your Back Yard report, the cover sported a spooky photo of a long line of rocket launchers, with machine gun laden soldiers perched menacingly on top. Super-imposed was striking type stating "Cubans in Africa." The impressive arms looked brand new, and many Americans who disdain the use of force--especially alien force such as Cuban troops in Africa--were sure to be alarmed and angered...