Word: fideles
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...last week there was growing evidence that all the early alarms had been much too strident. To begin with, the Soviets indicated that they might have overreacted to the Administration's position. The decidedly mellowing tone was set during a Kremlin dinner for visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, at which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev suggested that the Moscow chill had not been intended as a deepfreeze. He referred to the U.S. as "our partners" and scolded the Americans for "losing their constructive approach" and for adhering to a "onesided position." A "reasonable accommodation is possible" in arms limitation...
...like some slapstick Pat and Mike show transplanted to distant Africa. Everywhere that Nikolai Podgorny went, Fidel Castro was sure to have been. Well, almost. After inviting himself to Zambia, the Cuban leader left the band, the honor guard, the artillery poised for its 19-gun salute, waiting at the airport. Sorry, Castro decided after taking off from Tanzania, I'm going to Mozambique instead. "He asked to come," said a bewildered Zambian official. "We said yes, and that's the last we ever heard...
Podgorny himself arrived in Zambia later in the week to a warm if pro forma welcome. He did not even attempt to visit Angola-prudently, as it turned out, since Fidel had already taken the place by storm...
Cuba's wandering minstrel of anti-imperialism, Fidel Castro, last week flatly denied that any Cuban soldiers were involved in the fighting. Western diplomats agree that there is no firm evidence of Cuban involvement. But there is speculation that the Katangese-who are purportedly led by General Nathaniel Nbumba, the former Katangese police commissioner-may have been trained by Cubans in Angola. Almost certainly, the Angolans and their Cuban allies tolerated or approved the invasion plans. Mobutu, insisting that the rebels are "led by Cubans," appealed for an emergency airlift of arms and ammunition from the U.S. to stop...
...Fidel Castro's trip raised disturbing questions about Cuba's intentions in Africa-and, more important, those of the Soviet Union. To some extent, Castro's trip was undoubtedly an exercise in extending fraternal greetings to African regimes that he regards as sympathetic to Cuban socialism. But Castro's views about "exporting revolution" are too well known to be dismissed lightly. And as the fighting in Zaïre demonstrated last week, a relatively small fighting force, trained in the techniques of modern warfare, has an enormous capacity to destabilize young and fragile nations...