Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...familiar bearded figure in army fatigues suddenly popped up in Africa last week. Fidel Castro toured several countries, made anti-"imperialistic" speeches and discussed present and future Cuban military and technical aid. This week he was due to be followed by Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, who will go to Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique in a general effort to increase Soviet influence in southern Africa. Both could take some satisfaction from the fact that an African military force, aided by the Marxist regime in Angola and almost certainly by Cuban troops there, was striking with astonishing success at an essentially...
...training of Rhodesian guerrillas. In Somalia, on the Horn of Africa, they advise the army as well as the Somali guerrillas who are active in the neighboring French territory of Afars and Issas (otherwise known as Djibouti), which is set to become independent this summer. And now, judging by Fidel Castro's current swing around Africa, they seem to be extending their influence to Ethiopia as well...
...state to visit Ethiopia since the country's squabbling junta (known as the Dergue) dumped the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mengistu was believed to have asked Castro for military aid, but there were no indications of how Castro responded. Even more intriguing were rumors that Fidel was attempting to mediate the longstanding territorial quarrel that divides the Marxist regimes in Somalia and Ethiopia. Observers speculated that he might have delayed his departure from Ethiopia because he did not want to cut short his effort at shuttle diplomacy...
...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...