Word: ethiopias
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...favors playing that card for all it is worth, even to the point of never letting the enemy be sure whether the President might in extreme circumstances launch a pre-emptive strike. Since 1974, Nixon points out, several countries have come under Communist domination. Among them: Cambodia, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Afghanistan. Advises he: "We have to recover the geopolitical momentum, marshaling and using our resources in the tradition of a great power...
...exist, it is merely a set of Monopoly for the two superpowers. ("Trade you Park Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...Marxist-ruled but predominantly Christian Ethiopia, the ousted Orthodox Patriarch was jailed in 1976. The general secretary of the Lutheran Church was twice arrested, then abducted in 1979, and has not been heard from since. Believers are forced to worship at dawn before the required Sunday-morning political indoctrination sessions. Some Christians have been tortured and murdered...
Vance won that round. To this day Brzezinski believes that if he had prevailed two years ago and the U.S. had stood up to the Kremlin over Ethiopia, the Carter Administration would have impressed congressional hardliners, chastened the Soviet leaders, preserved detente and secured enough support for the ratification of SALT II. Because of that incident and others, Vance's temperamental reluctance to get involved in fights was too broadly interpreted by his critics. They saw him as being soft on Soviet expansionism...
...intending to give top priority to the Third World, we have Iran in anti-American chaos, that whole arc of crisis more and more hostile to the U.S., India and Pakistan both vying for Soviet favor, a Soviet base in South Yemen, the Afghanistan occupation, a Soviet base in Ethiopia, Cubans and East Germans all over East Africa, Central America in anti-U.S. turmoil. And the last conference of the nonaligned passed the most virulently anti-American resolutions in the history of the movement...