Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organized crime, says a Washington official, dominates the traditional porn industry, as well as massage parlors, topless bars and strip joints. Now it is a growing presence in porn films as well. Ironically, the Supreme Court's community-standards ruling in 1973 gave the mob its first foothold. Fearful of prosecution for interstate activities, many independent producers turned the risky business of distribution over to the Mafia. The mob also began pirating prints, then going to film producers and offering to take over future distribution and call off further piracy. The Mafia is in the business for the same reason...
...decision-making processes. The necessity for aid was not at issue, but the amounts relative to the stage of development of the movements were crucial. Because of the severe repression within Luanda at the outbreak of the armed struggle in 1961, MPLA was not able to build the same foothold within Angola as did simultaneous popular movements in Guinea and Mozambique. But the Soviet Union provided such an efficient propaganda machine that it allowed MPLA to glower under the successes of the other two movements. The Angolan party felt less and less compelled to strive inside Angola for what...
...Chicago Tribune argued that "Angola would provide a foothold for the spread of Russian influence in Africa." On the other hand, CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite felt that Angola could become another Viet Nam and began a series on the U.S. involvement "to try to play our small part in preventing that mistake this time...
...view, the Angolan aid issue is a basic test of American will in the face of Soviet expansionism. Kissinger argued that only because of the U.S.-supplied equipment, the anti-Soviet groups in the former Portuguese colony have so far managed to thwart Moscow's desire for a foothold on the southwest coast of Africa. Among other things, Soviet air and naval bases in Angola would give the Russians the capacity to intercept Western supertankers en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe...
...away its rubles in Angola. They argue that there is no way to guarantee that sizable Soviet backing will buy an obedient satellite state or even produce a trustworthy ally. Moreover, even if the Soviets were to gain naval and air bases in Angola, giving them a long-coveted foothold on the West Coast of Africa, skeptics maintain that the strategic advantages would not be worth the damage done to Soviet-American relations and East-West détente...