Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambassador to the U.N. Andrew Young is worried about the Soviet role in Africa from a somewhat different viewpoint. He regards the Communist threat to the continent as less serious than does either Vance or Brzezinski, partly because he believes African nations are more interested in economic development than in ideology and thus more inclined to look to the West for help. But he is fearful that Russian adventurism could produce an emotional reaction in the U.S., which could wreck the Administration's carefully nurtured policy of seeking closer ties with black Africa...
Throughout Africa, reaction to the rescue operation was relatively restrained. The French-speaking countries were, as a whole, delighted. White South Africans argued that apart from demonstrating the "savagery" of Africa, the Shaba invasion and the Kolwezi massacre had awakened the West to the threat of Marxist involvement in Africa. Many black leaders seemed far less outraged than they had been in late 1964, when the West mounted a similar rescue mission to save 1,300 whites stranded in Stanleyville (now Kisangani) during the Congo's Simba rebellion. But they were still acutely aware that the enduring problem was that...
...days. The Zaïre news agency AZAP lamely tried to explain that "for purposes of identification and to facilitate the work of the press and the Red Cross, all bodies have been left at the spot where they were killed." As the stench became intolerable and the threat of a cholera epidemic grew, Red Cross officials recruited local workers, provided them with masks, and set up burial crews...
...delivered a toughly worded speech accusing the Kremlin of mounting "a continuing buildup of unprecedented proportions in Europe." In addition, he attacked the Soviets for deploying the SS-20 missile. Though the Vice President made it plain that "no nation can be asked to reduce its defenses below the threat it faces," he did make one substantive proposal to the disarmament assembly. This was an offer to provide supersophisticated U.S.-built electronic monitoring systems for surveillance of arms and policing any disarmament agreements. Mondale declared the U.S. would consider foreign requests for what he termed "these eyes and ears...
Gromyko may have kept a moderate tone in part to avoid provoking excessive reaction at this week's NATO summit in Washington, where the 15 members are scheduled to consider a "longterm defense program" to meet the Soviet arms threat over the next 15 years. Though some quarreling among members of the chronically troubled alliance seemed inevitable, U.S. planners were encouraged by advance pledges of support from British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who will be one of twelve heads of government attending. By ironic coincidence, the meeting's chairman will be Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit...