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...those bases will presumably be the huge Soviet-built naval installation at Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, about 625 miles north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which...
...three of these groups have had trouble supplying the rebels in the field, who send back tortuously written pleas for help signed with dozens of thumbprints. One of the saddest realities about the battle is the insurgents' inability to cope with equipment. Although rebel groups have captured Soviet-built tanks, howitzers and even some helicopters, the machinery goes unused because most of the tribesmen do not have the training to operate anything more sophisticated than a bolt-action rifle. Nonetheless, the righteous tenacity of a thousand blood feuds persists. "I am just a mountain man who acts according...
...fighting began at 7:30 in the evening, according to the U.S. State Department, with Soviet troops and weapons deployed in key locations of Kabul. In a 3½-hour battle for the radio station, Soviet troops using armored personnel carriers knocked out two Afghan tanks and took a number of prisoners. At one point a U.S. official reported with some relish, "The Soviets are getting shot up pretty well." Soviet-built MiG-21 jets flew overhead in repeated passes. By midnight the city was reported quiet...
...Sept. 17 issue of TIME carries a photo of an alleged "Soviet-built intelligence station in Cuba." Quite the contrary, the photo is of an American-built telecommunications center that has been in Cuba, operated by an affiliate of ITT, since the late 1950s...
...nchez-Parodi is correct. TIME 's photograph was not of the Soviet-built intelligence-gathering communications equipment in Cuba. High-level sources erred in identifying the photo for TIME...