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...Chinese for help rather than to the Russians. Nonetheless, the Soviets have built an oil refinery and a 1,000-student polytechnical institute, and Nigeria, despite its strong ties to the West, has turned to the U.S.S.R. for warplanes and has sent 700 students to study in Soviet universities. Zambia too has gone to the Soviets for arms, as has Sierra Leone. Moscow is arming Rhodesian black insurgents based in Tanzania and Mozambique and members of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which is fighting against South Africa's control of South West Africa (Namibia...
...exactly a "tragedy." The Administration's case for aid to Angola did make sense, especially in view of the fact that Zaire and Zambia, relatively stable and friendly countries in the area, asked that the U.S. take action. But Angola is scarcely a crucial zone of U.S. interest. The congressional move, however, certainly further weakened the U.S. postures in the world and raised serious questions about whether the present Congress is willing to allow the Administration any kind of latitude in its foreign operations. Part of the opposition professed to quarrel with the covert nature of U.S. help...
Secret Program. According to Ford Administration officials, the U.S. began sending significant supplies in August to the anti-Soviet factions at the urging of Angola's neighbors-Zaire, Zambia and South Africa. As required by law, the Administration informed eight congressional committees and subcommittees about the operation, but the program remained a secret to most members of Congress until this month. So far, the U.S. aid has brought the anti-Soviet forces mostly small arms, mortars, machine guns and light artillery...
...First World; Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Indonesia, Venezuela and Nigeria from OPEC; and India, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Cameroon, Zaire, Zambia, Argentina. Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Jamaica from the developing world...
...states that need time and technology, rather than massive foreign aid, to build modern, developed economies. The nations in this category include the revenue-rich members of OPEC (Organization of Oil Exporting Countries), as well as states whose development may be guaranteed by other key natural resources: Zaire and Zambia (copper), Morocco (phosphates), Malaysia (tin, rubber and timber). Into this group also fall nations like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico and Brazil, which are developed enough to attract foreign investment and borrow on commercial terms...