Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caribbean has become an arena for superpower rivalry, with Havana, as usual, acting as Moscow's surrogate. Says a U.S. official: "There is a great concern that America and its ideological values are in retreat. If the Cubans were to lure the little island countries of the eastern Caribbean into their sphere of influence, it would send shock waves throughout Central America all the way to Cape Horn...
...established relations with Havana. There is worry in Washington that the Sandinista revolt could spill over into El Salvador and Guatemala, where repressive military regimes are struggling against leftist dissidents. Grenada's warm embrace of Havana could set an example for other former British island possessions in the eastern Caribbean...
Moscow has been so concerned about the effectiveness of the SR-71s that it has repeatedly made attempts to shoot the planes down over Eastern Europe, North Korea and the Middle East with surface-to-air missiles. They have never made a single kill, but that could change. Entering the Soviet arms inventory is a new SAM called Gammon that the U.S. Air Force estimates has the capability of catching up with an SR-71. A major concern of U.S. defense authorities: if the Gammon is shipped to Havana, it could be bye-bye, Blackbird, over Cuba...
...covert operations. As chief of the clandestine operations division in the '50s, as a Deputy Director in the early '60s, and finally, from 1966 to 1973, as head of the CIA, Helms' efforts spanned the globe--from Chile to Cuba to the Congo to Southeast Asia to Italy and Eastern Europe, and always, always, to the USSR: anticommunism is the lifeblood of the CIA. In 1977 Helms explained what had worried him most as CIA director--not fighting secret wars, not overturning free elections, not the press, not Watergate, but..."The CIA is the only intelligence service in the Western...
...conduct was attributed to personal pique, anti-Indian bias, callousness toward suffering, or immorality. Had we acted differently, Pakistan, after losing its eastern wing, would have lost Kashmir and possibly Baluchistan and other portions of its western wing-in other words, it would have disintegrated...