Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose is to bolster existing governments. In backing the Nationalist government on Taiwan, for example, the U.S. has frequently ordered the Seventh Fleet to steam up and down the Strait of Taiwan near the Chinese mainland and has alerted Air Force bombers based in Japan and Taiwan. In 1959 Cuban-backed insurgents who had landed in Panama to overthrow the government were intimidated into retreating when a U.S. destroyer and minesweeper and patrol planes appeared off the Panamanian coast...
...President of Angola, but guerrilla war still goes on-this time directed against his own Marxist government in Luanda. Angola has been admitted into the United Nations as its 146th member-an act of faith in the Neto government that may be slightly premature. The M.P.L.A. forces and the Cuban troops that helped them to win the civil war after the Portuguese pulled out in 1975 have uncontested control over only about half of the 481,000-sq.-mi. country...
...Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and FLEC, a Zaire-supported front that seeks independence from Angola for the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. Despite the continuing presence in Angola of at least 13,000 elite Cuban troops, which supplement his own Soviet-supplied army of 20,000, Neto concedes that "the defense of the country's sovereignty and security remains one of the most important preoccupations of the government...
That is an understatement. The 500 or so FLEC guerrillas in Cabinda have not yet interfered with the oil production that supplies 80% of Angola's foreign exchange, but their hit-and-run raids have tied down at least 5,000 Cuban and M.P.L.A. troops. Elsewhere in northern Angola, Roberto's F.N.L.A. soldiers are carrying on a low-level insurgency campaign of sabotage, road mining and occasional ambushes. They have made the coffee plantations of the area so unsafe that laborers from the south refuse to work there...
Savimbi insists that he is not fighting to overthrow Neto's government. He says, "The real enemy is Cuban colonialism. The Cubans have taken over the country, but sooner or later they will suffer their own Viet Nam in Angola. We are perfectly willing to have a dialogue with the M.P.L.A. and form a national unity government of Angolans. But the Cubans must leave first. Then we will build true African socialism...