Word: foreign
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Happily, both men emphasize that primary responsibility for protecting foreign countries should be shifted to regional groupings of the countries themselves-a subject crucial to U.S. policy in Southeast Asia after the Viet Nam war ceases. Humphrey says, for example, that Asia's regional defense should be led by Japan and India. But many exposed allies will be unable to protect themselves until they achieve political and economic stability-and that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent...
From the outset, the war between Nigeria and secessionist Biafra loomed as an unequal contest. It was not surprising that, as in the earlier Congo conflicts, foreign mercenaries were drawn to Biafra to practice their trade: fighting. Nor was it surprising that the beleaguered Biafrans accepted their services-despite the fact that mercenaries can be narrow, violent men who often harbor a deep contempt for Africans. In the midst of the idealism with which Biafra pleaded its cause for independence, the mercenaries have operated-sometimes ugly, certainly anomalous, but perhaps necessary to Biafra's continued survival...
Record Supplies. Last week the Fourth Commandos were once more rebuilding under the command of a German-born ex-Foreign Legion sergeant who became a sector commander for the S.A.O. (Secret Army Organization) in Algeria and then a colonel for Ojukwu in Biafra. He is Rolf Steiner, and he considers the war to be far from lost, contemptuously dismissing the territorial gains of the heavily armed Nigerians. "If any corporal serving under me in the Legion had taken more than a week to conquer West Africa with their kind of equipment," he snorts, "I'd have him shot...
Colonel Steiner, 38, has been soldiering for most of his life. In the final days of World War II, he fought as a Hitler Youth in Germany's last-ditch defense against the advancing U.S. Army. After the German surrender, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He spent seven years in Indo-China, an enfant terrible who was at least twice busted from sergeant to private. At Dienbienphu, he was wounded and lost the use of a lung. After five years of service in Algeria, a spell with the S.A.O. and a suspended sentence, he was living...
...SHAME ON THE INVADERS! Beaten, cursed and arrested by KGB (secret police) agents, they were charged with making a public disturbance and slandering the Soviet Union. After a three-day trial, a Moscow court two weeks ago imposed terms of exile or imprisonment on the five defendants. By banning foreign newsmen from the trial and by packing the small courtroom with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities sought to curb information about the proceedings. They failed. Last week Western newsmen in Moscow received surreptitious copies* of the final remarks of two of those on trial: Mrs. Larisa Daniel...