Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Cuban forces made "a substantial contribution" to the revolutionary struggle in Angola, and are presently in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, Nteta added...
...major who survived several previous attempts on his life, Ngouabi, 38, was long a bitter enemy of Zaïre's Mobutu. His tiny (pop. 1.3 million), dirt-poor country has enjoyed Soviet patronage for years, and its airport served in 1975 as a convenient refueling point for Cuban troop planes bound to aid Angola's M.P.L.A. guerrillas. Ngouabi's killing-which Radio Brazzaville laid to "imperialist commandos"-was apparently the work of one Captain Kikadidi, who managed to escape while most of his assassination squad was cut down. An eleven-man military junta assumed power...
...invasion of Zaire. But the simple and incontrovertible fact is that Angola is supplying the Katangans with arms. What then is wrong with giving military aid to Zaire? Zaire, while not a perfect democracy, is miles ahead of Angola. Why doesn't The Crimson comment on the 10,000 Cuban troops remaining in Angola? We agree that America should not forget the lessons of Vietnam. But there is a big difference between sending arms and sending troops. Therefore we applaud the recent action of the Carter Administration...