Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consciousness is to be antiimperialist, we must soon join the struggle in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau to the struggle of the Vietnamese, in our own minds, and come to see that American interests are stationed throughout the world as a multilayered hedge against the threatening national liberation movements...
Other Africans besides Amin are also beholden to Gaddafi. Libya is arming and training Moslem separatists in neighboring Chad and sending weapons to Eritrean rebels fighting Haile Selassie ("a lackey of Israel"). It has supplied guns to Guinea and money to Upper Volta, Mauritania and Niger. Libya also provides yearly subsidies of $125 million to Egypt and $45 million to Syria, with which it is joined in a new Federation of Arab Republics, and is a principal financial angel of the Palestinian guerrilla movement. More than 300 Libyan soldiers are serving with the fedayeen; five of them were killed...
Before these revolutions, Portugal used to be very jealous about foreign investment. They wouldn't let foreigners invest in Angola. Mozambique or Guinea Bisseau. They were particularly afraid of South Africans taking over. But as these revolutions have progressed, the Portuguese have discovered that they need help; that they can't do it alone. So now you have West German, French, British, American, and South African capital involved in building the Cabora Bassa dam. They have conceived Cabora Bassa as the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa, larger than the Aswan high dam in Egypt. And they plan to settle...
...very important for the comrades in Angola, the comrades in the bush in Mozambique, the comrades in Guinea Bissau to know that they are not alone. That they have some allies in other places. And our goal and objective is not to participate in this system, but to participate in the world-wide revolutionary movement. The future of the world is going to be decided in Third World revolutionary struggles...
There's still more. Robert Duvall, rivalling Robert Ryan as America's most underrated actor, is the Corleone's German-Irish lawyer: Sterling Hayden, brute incarnate, a guinea-baiting crooked mick cop; and a supporting cast of lesser-knowns and has-beens with the right number of stitches in their faces and cricks in their walks...