Word: ethiopia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cannot help finding it inconsistent, if not hypocritical, for the government of Israel to lobby so aggressively against the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, while Israel has exported arms to a Marxist regime supported by the Russians and Cubans in Ethiopia...
...which are directly across the Red Sea from a nation that provides 10% of America's oil supply, why should there be any question about our selling F-15s, an essentially defensive weapon, to a more reliable ally, which is surrounded by radical leftist regimes in South Yemen, Ethiopia and Iraq...
...obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. 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...
...Soviet presence on the Horn of Africa, says former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was not an "unselfish" response to an appeal from Ethiopia involving its quarrel with Somalia. Moscow's purpose was geopolitical: "To outflank the Middle East, to demonstrate that the U.S. cannot protect its friends, to raise doubts in Saudi Arabia right across the Red Sea, in Egypt, in the Sudan, in Iran. " Speaking in Manhattan last week to the International Radio and Television Society, Kissinger suggested that four basic principles should be kept in mind−perhaps by the Carter Administration−as the Russians...
...strategic arms. The control of nuclear weapons is one of the pre-eminent problems of our period, and it should not be lightly linked with other issues. But it is important that the Soviet Union understand that another move of the kind we have seen in Angola and Ethiopia will raise the presumption that we are facing a global geopolitical challenge incompatible with any definition of detente. Under those circumstances I do not see how any agreement could possibly be ratified and how detente could survive. I hope that that will be made clear to the Soviet Union...