Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...count on the support of such far-flung fellow Marxist regimes as Angola, which still harbors Cuban troops on its territory; Afghanistan, which relies on Soviet assistance to stave off an Islamic insurgency; and Viet Nam, which has been a fully official Soviet ally ever since its "peace and friendship" treaty with Moscow last year...
Readers who remember this iridescent story simply for the shock of incest forget that it is also about sacrifice and love. Similarly, The Time of Friendship can be mistaken for a bleak vision of estrangement. On one of her annual visits to the Sahara, a Swiss schoolteacher befriends a poor young Muslim boy. They develop a bond that the teacher hopes will lead to mutual understanding. Their differences remain too great, as the teacher learns: "She had assumed that somehow his association with her had automatically been for his ultimate good, that inevitably he had been undergoing a process...
...examples of unrestrained Soviet conduct, in which they create the opportunity rather than simply reaping the harvest of our failure, are the dispatch of Cuban proxy forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the two invasions of Zaire from Angola, the Communist coups in South Yemen and Afghanistan, and the Soviet friendship treaty with Viet Nam just prior to Viet Nam's occupation of Cambodia. Also, there's the establishment of Soviet bases in Viet Nam and military depots in Ethiopia and Libya, the dispatch of air forces to Cuba to fly air defense missions so that the Cuban...
...Soviet Union is up to the Soviet Union to avoid. But the Soviet Union can avoid exacerbating conflicts that may arise even if it did not cause them. That means they should not dispatch proxy forces, not encourage coups and create a general climate of insecurity, not sign friendship treaties under conditions that will lead to military operations. That burden we must assume, too, in any rational pattern of coexistence...
...Does not the Soviet-Vietnamese friendship treaty have to be seen in the dual context of the Sino-Soviet hostility and Viet Nam's feeling of being directly threatened by China? Why was that treaty necessarily provocative against...