Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroying" President Carter? I hope...
...continuing attrition leads some Washington officials to hope that Castro's venture will eventually bog him down in a Viet Nam-style quagmire, despite his Soviet support. It is frequently pointed out that Cuba's manpower commitment in Africa is greater, in proportion to the country's 10 million population, than American involvement at the height of the Viet...
...government attending. By ironic coincidence, the meeting's chairman will be Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit, who is one of the alliance's more disaffected members as the result of a congressionally imposed arms embargo. However, he is expected to play his cards skillfully in the hope that Carter will be successful in his effort to persuade Congress to lift the 3½-year-old arms...
...Liberacion d'Angola (MPLA), which had established itself as the best-organized and most popular nationalist movement. In this "Second War of Independence," (the first was against Portugal), Zairean troops invaded Angola in support of the FNLA, headed by Mobutu's brother-in-law Holden Roberto--obviously Mobutu's hope for extending his influence into Angola. South African troops invaded from the south in support of UNITA, the group they trusted to set up a safe buffer state to keep the heat off the racist Vorster regime in South Africa...
...Swanson thinks that the Soviet Union is a criminal society and its use of the word socialist an obscenity. I agree. He thinks Cuba is a shining beacon of revolutionary hope. Yet Cuba is the indentured servant of the Soviet Union, and is now paying off its debts by spilling Cuban blood in Africa, as we spilled American blood in Vietnam. And, as for Castro's story as to why he imprisoned Huber Matos, as a veteran reporter Mr. Swanson should know that one does not take at face value the reason given by the jailors, expecially when the jailed...