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...organized crime. The infection has spread in the wake of the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s. It appeals particularly to those who could not fit into a modern, Western-style society. At its core are several Mafia-like family gangs whose ethnic roots are in Yemen and North Africa. Beginning as petty criminals, they are now said to be engaged in counterfeiting, extortion, illegal money transactions, black market operations and even drug smuggling from South America...
...Soviet government for aggressive invasion-type moves or infiltration-type moves. I think that they also do a lot of probing and testing, and if they don't meet any resistance--and they didn't in Angola, and they didn't in Ethiopia, and they didn't in Yemen, and they didn't meet much in Afghanistan except within Afghanistan--then they go ahead and do more. Each time they meet no resistance on one of these infilitrations or actual invasions, they're encouraged to do more. And I think they've had plans to do more, and I think...
...Ford Administration. And you'll recall at that time it was the Legislative, not the Executive, Branch which prevented action designed to support those who were opposed to the Soviet-supported outcome. Since that time, we've been plagued with similar situations in Ethiopia, in South Yemen, North Yemen, Afghanistan, in Kampuchea [Cambodia]. And we now see a very clearly delineated Soviet-Cuban strategy to create Marxist-Leninist regimes in Central America -Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the first phase...
...notice on any potential aggressor that a move against the country or its oilfields could bring swift retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy a 45,000-man army, a 4,000-man navy and a 17,000-man air force...
...cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations of U.S. commitments and vital interests would inject some uncertainty-and possibly some additional caution-into Soviet calculations...