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...they got a lot of advantages out of it. With this and other instruments of destabilization and subversion, they managed to convert their continental power into a worldwide power. In little more than ten years, they have extended their reach from South Yemen to Angola, from Nicaragua to Ethiopia...
...Soviet world problems. Five years ago, ordinary people were joining up with Communist guerrilla movements and throwing over governments. Today there are ordinary people around the world who have taken up arms to resist Communist-imposed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia...
...Ethiopia's Marxist government is largely responsible for the widespread famines in that African country, concludes a soon-to-be released report by the Harvard-based Cultural Survival...
...report, "The Politics of Famine in Ethiopia," culminates the largest and most scientific research project on the famine by any government or private group, Clay said...
...People can't just close their eyes to politics. The American public shouldn't be told that drought is the only cause or even the major cause of famine in Ethiopia," Clay said. He added that many of the refugees interviewed had lived through worse droughts before government actions made subsistence impossible...