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...Soviet presence is more than matched by that of its surrogates. Some 11,000 Cuban troops, flown in initially in 1977 when neighboring Somalia invaded the disputed Ogaden region of Ethiopia, still guard the country's vulnerable eastern flank. East Germans are used to train Ethiopia's secret police. Several hundred more Soviet-bloc advisers are expected to be working in government departments and state-controlled industries by year's end. Says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Ethiopia represents Moscow's greatest success in Africa in more than a decade. It's a prize...
...Angeles is being invaded. Two hours after the Santiagos arrived a Pan American jet landed with 76 Vietnamese refugees on board. And all those immigrants standing in anxious L.A. airport queues, mainly Asians, are only the western flank. At the INS checkpoints to the south in San Diego, nearly 2,500 Mexicans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans are waved through each month. Many more, perhaps 50 times the legal arrivals, slip quietly over the border...
...southern Wyoming, whose representatives are suing to keep train service there, and the nostalgic, who recently thronged at the gate for one last westward roll. The smell of bacon lay heavy on the morning air, spreading from a car with the name "Silver Banquet" flung back along its flank. "It is truly the last one," said Steve Patterson, a locomotive engineer with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and a man who rides the Zephyr mostly just to eat. "All the other passenger trains anywhere you go in this country all look alike. I call them generic trains. The little...
...Chinese are convinced that Viet Nam is bent on dominating Southeast Asia through a tripartite Indochinese socialist union that would include Kampuchea and Laos. Peking also fears that Hanoi's actions are part of a larger Soviet scheme to threaten China's southern flank. Aside from launching their brief attack across Viet Nam's northern border in early 1979, the Chinese have been giving weapons and supplies to the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Kampuchea. Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree...
There was ample reason for the show of good will. Geopolitically, Pakistan, a Muslim nation of 84 million, plus 2.8 million Afghan refugees, stands between the 100,000 Soviet troops that invaded Afghanistan and the eastern flank of the Persian Gulf region. Under U.N. auspices, it has been negotiating indirectly with the Soviet Union to achieve a complete Soviet troop withdrawal. Cautiously optimistic last week, Zia revealed that he had detected "a hint of flexibility" during his 45-minute meeting last month with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov...