Word: ethiopia
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Soviet and Cuban involvement in El Salvador, for example, has become increasingly evident in recent weeks. Documents captured by Salvadoran authorities describe a trip by guerrilla leaders to the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, Ethiopia and several Eastern European countries, during which they obtained commitments from Communist leaders for weapons and uniforms. According to U.S. intelligence officials, deliveries are handled by Cuba, often through Nicaragua. The Administration intends to make Soviet-bloc support of the guerrillas in El Salvador a major issue in East-West relations. A delegation of top State Department and CIA officials, led by Lawrence Eagleburger, Haig...
...cruise missiles, it's got the most modern-theater nuclear weapons in the S520. I know that they marched into Afghanistan, I know they are in Hungary, Czechoslovakia. They've got Cuban surrogates in Angola. I know that they've given help to both Somalia and Ethiopia. I know that there have been problems in the Caribbean, problems in Central America. Why? It is actually culpable if a leader does not make an assessment of that. That's not hawkish-I hate those jargon things. That's doing your duty by your countrymen...
...happening: the balance of deterrence-or the balance of terror if you like-between the Soviet Union and the U.S. and Europe is holding the line across Europe. But you are getting troubles almost girdling the world below the NATO belt. Viet Nam and Cambodia, Iran and Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia and Angola, Central America and the Caribbean. There are times when your front line may be way beyond NATO. I do think that is something we need to look at, because raw materials lines are absolutely vital to the capability to defend yourself...
...Reagan Administration is angered by the Sandinistas' all too enthusiastic support for the leftist rebels in neighboring El Salvador. Documents reportedly captured last month from leftist guerrillas indicate that weapons were offered to El Salvador by the Soviet Union, its East European satellites, Viet Nam and Ethiopia. And as one U.S. official puts it, "All that stuff either came from the moon or it came through Nicaragua." A State Department task force is trying to determine the extent to which the regime is officially involved in the arms traffic. If it concludes that the Sandinistas abetted the shipments...
Chapin was ambassador to Ethiopia until July, 1980, when he was expelled by Ethiopia's Marxist government. He has been deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American Affairs in the Defense Department since December...