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...into Angola during the Ford Administration. And you'll recall at that time it was the Legislative, not the Executive, Branch which prevented action designed to support those who were opposed to the Soviet-supported outcome. Since that time, we've been plagued with similar situations in Ethiopia, in South Yemen, North Yemen, Afghanistan, in Kampuchea [Cambodia]. And we now see a very clearly delineated Soviet-Cuban strategy to create Marxist-Leninist regimes in Central America -Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the first phase...
Time: Nov. 30, 1974. Scene: the bleached and arid Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Nothing about the desert seemed auspicious. Yet Anthropologist Donald Johanson had a premonition that this would be no ordinary morning. Shortly afterward, his hunch was ratified. The day was not merely unusual; it was epochal...
...plot" to subvert democracy. (It is intriguing how 80 per cent of the population, according to official sources in the Catholic Church, supports a plot to subvert democracy in their own country). Of all the nations allegedly implicated in this plot, the most prominent are, in alphabetical order. Cuba, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, "radical Arab governments," and the Soviet Union...
...Cuba to Managua, Nicaragua, and unloading a variety of American-and European-made arms, which are eventually smuggled into El Salvador. He backed up his assertions with a slide show that included blowups of documents allegedly written by a Communist guerrilla leader and detailing commitments made by Viet Nam, Ethiopia, the Soviet Union and East European nations to provide military hardware. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence was a series of photographs of a tractor-trailer said to have been captured in Honduras. Underneath the trailer's false bottom was a cache of about 150 M-16 assault rifles. Serial...
...been, and probably will not be, reckless. In picking their targets, the Kremlin leaders chose nations that the U.S. had somehow denied as outside its area of national interest. Congress did so explicitly in the case of Angola in 1975; the Carter Administration did much the same with Ethiopia; poor Afghanistan was effectively conceded to eventual Soviet domination as far back as the '50s, when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles left it sandwiched between the U.S.S.R. and the now defunct Central Treaty Organization...