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Five Nations Under Siege
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CURRENT ISSUES
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2 / 1986 |
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Ray S. Cline
Ray S. Cline, former CIA deputy director for intelligence, is
chairman of the United States Global Strategy Council. |
Ethiopia, September 1974 - The emperor Haile Selassie was deposed and Soviet backed rebels took power. Angola, February 1976 - A Soviet-Cuban backed government was established. Cambodia, January 1979 - Soviet backed Vietnamese troops invaded Phnom Penh and established Heng Samrin government. Nicaragua, July 1979 - Soviet and Cuban - backed Sandinista rebels took power. Afghanistan, December 1979 - Soviet troops invaded Kabul. President Reagan in his speech to the United Nations last year highlighted these five nations in which communism is at war with six million people. This month, The World & I presents an in-depth analysis of each country's situation and the prognosis for a possible solution.
In the November, 1985 summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan won a victory in comparison with other recent summits by holding the Soviet team hitless, notably on the crucial Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He also scored modestly by getting on the board at Geneva the point that peace and independence should be restored to five besieged nations now being torn apart by military conflicts in which the Soviet Union and its client states have intervened on one contending side in each local political struggle, naturally on the side of the Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. The states in jeopardy are the ones singled out in Reagan's presummit speech at the United Nations, on 24 October 1985: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Angola, and Nicaragua. Soviet-oriented regimes supported by Soviet, Vietnamese, or Cuban troops are in place in all five countries, but in all of them substantial nationalistic freedom forces are fighting against Soviet, Cuban, or Vietnamese domination.
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