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...Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and, finally, President Reagan. With the help of a high-powered public relations firm, he appeared on Public Television's MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour and ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America to plead his cause against Angola's Marxist regime and their Cuban and Soviet sponsors. At a national Conservative convention in Washington, he received a cheering, whistling ovation, and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick urged the U.S. to provide him with "real helicopters, real ground-to-air missiles, real weapons...
...began to change after UNITA, backed by CIA funding, lost a power struggle to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), a Marxist party that continues to run Angola with the help of some 30,000 Cuban troops and 1,500 Soviet military advisers. From his base in the southeastern third of the country, Savimbi turned from a Maoist into what he called "a New Testament socialist." Recently, he has portrayed himself in terms that U.S. conservatives find even more appealing. "The American people are again interested in helping those who are fighting for freedom," Savimbi told TIME...
...began conducting security searches at the border that severely restricted the daily flow of supplies into the enclave nation. But relations between the countries had been tense for some time. Jonathan had irritated the fiercely anti-Communist South African government by inviting the Soviet Union and other Marxist countries to open embassies in Maseru. He had also given refuge to guerrillas from the outlawed African National Congress, which seeks to overthrow South Africa's white-minority government...
Caught unawares by South Yemen's rapidly spreading civil war, the British and Soviet governments were participating in a joint rescue operation that in a modest way resembled the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk during World War II. As savage fighting between Marxist factions spread throughout the desert country, about 5,000 foreigners were transported from Aden, at the southern approach to the Red Sea, to the former French colony of Djibouti, 150 miles away...
...significance of the struggle between the Marxist factions, which has both ideological and tribal overtones, is equally murky. Former President Ismail is a Moscow-line ideologue who caused endless mischief for his more conservative Arab neighbors. He was succeeded in 1980 by Muhammad, a pragmatist who sought closer ties with neighboring North Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia...