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...backed by as many as 40,000 Cuban troops and more than 1,500 Soviet and East German advisers, should have gained the upper hand long ago. Luanda has received $2 billion in military hardware from Moscow in recent years; airports are crowded with Soviet assault helicopters and fighter aircraft, and ports provide havens for Soviet warships. Despite this mighty arsenal, some Angolan troops are in rags and many are demoralized. Observes a church worker who has lived in the country three years: "When things get tough, they peel off their uniforms and take to the bush...
...zeal to win this confrontation, the House approved a provision requiring the President to deploy, within 30 days after the law takes effect, "armed forces sufficient to halt the unlawful penetration of U.S. borders by aircraft and vessels carrying narcotics." The proposal, yet to be considered by the Senate, allows soldiers to arrest drug smugglers captured in "hot pursuit" and, with blithe unrealism, orders the President to "substantially halt" drug trafficking within 45 days of military deployment...
...logistics of such a sweeping interdiction are indeed daunting. Some 160,000 ships, boats and pleasure craft enter U.S. harbors, bays and inlets annually. There are about 88,000 border crossings by aircraft every year. "To honor the House directives," said Weinberger, "the Pentagon would have to find some way of enforcing a 4,000-mile naval blockade...
...nation's coastlines and employ almost its entire inventory of AWACS radar planes in a drug interdiction role." Said Chapman Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management: "To use F-16 squadrons to intercept low- flying, slow, propeller-driven aircraft will be a difficult task, but we could do it. It just would be very inefficient...
...addition to banning U.S. investment and bank loans, the new legislation would terminate landing rights in this country for South African aircraft and prohibit U.S. imports of South African uranium, coal, steel, textiles, military vehicles, agricultural products and food...