Word: somalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy ships patrolling the Indian Ocean. At the same time, the Carter Administration disclosed that the U.S., in exchange for an undetermined amount of aid, had obtained tentative rights to use air and naval facilities in three countries along the Asian-African "crescent of crisis": Oman, Kenya and Somalia...
...direct interest in the conduct of affairs in the Middle East, they do not have a record of direct military intervention there. At the moment, their penetration of the region is quite weak, with friendly governments only in South Yemen and Ethiopia. They have been invited out of Somalia and Egypt, from which they withdrew their military advisers, and they have lost significant influence in both Syria and Iraq which previously had been seen as friends, if not actual allies. The United States, by contrast, is now making strong claims to creating something like a protectorate in the Persian Gulf...
...Saudis acknowledge that their security depends ultimately on U.S. power. To guard their independence, they abhor the thought of having U.S. bases on their own soil, but they would not be opposed to American outposts in Oman, Somalia or Kenya. The Saudis' first priority, however, is to build up their own forces. They are now confident that given the current cold war climate, the U.S. Congress will approve their purchase of 60 advanced F-15 fighter jets, though Riyadh is sensitive to any suggestion that the planes would be gifts. When told by a visiting Congressman that it looked...
...Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. This team will be quickly followed to Riyadh by another, led by the State Department's Political and Military Affairs Director Reginald Bartholomew and Matthew Nimetz, the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance. Its aim: to negotiate the use of military facilities in Somalia, Kenya or, most likely, Oman, which could become an important U.S. military outpost in the 1980s. Middle East Negotiator Sol Linowitz visited Saudi Arabia last week to talk about the ongoing Egyptian-Israeli negotiations over autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...coup attempt; and Egypt threw out its Soviet advisers in 1972. Though nominally nonaligned, India tilted toward Moscow after Indira Gandhi signed a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in 1971. So far, in her second rise to power, Gandhi insists that India will remain genuinely nonaligned. Somalia brusquely expelled the Soviets from its huge missile and naval base at Berbera in 1977 after Moscow backed Ethiopia in the Ogaden...