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Among these laws is the Clark amendment, a post-Viet Nam measure that prevents the President from sending military aid to Angola. On May 1, CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner and David Aaron, Brzezinski's deputy at the National Security Agency, visited Senator...
...states, is absolutely legitimate, since Eritrea was unilaterally incorporated into Ethiopia by the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1967. Both the Soviets and, particularly, the Cubans are doing their best to keep from getting dragged into the righting there. They apparently realize that Eritrea could trap them in a Viet Nam- like debacle, at the same time laying to rest once and for all what Henry Kissinger calls "the myth of the invincible Cubans...
...continuing attrition leads some Washington officials to hope that Castro's venture will eventually bog him down in a Viet Nam-style quagmire, despite his Soviet support. It is frequently pointed out that Cuba's manpower commitment in Africa is greater, in proportion to the country's 10 million population, than American involvement at the height of the Viet...
...looked more like an armory than an airport. In fact, as Tzsuya Tsukushi, a Japanese television newscaster, put it, "Narita resembles nothing so much as Saigon airport during the Viet Nam War." All around the ultramodern terminal and along the highway leading to it, 14,000 Japanese security police stood at the ready, decked out for battle with shields and 4-ft. staves. Out in the nearby fields, clustered around "solidarity huts," more than 6,000 youthful protesters and wizened farmers brandished steel pipes and occasionally lobbed a fire bomb at the police flanks...
...since Tokyo's support of U.S. policy in Viet Nam provoked violent demonstrations in the 1960s has an issue so inflamed and coalesced the Japanese radical movement. Beginning in 1967, when the project got under way, there have been 56 major riots and demonstrations, five deaths, 8,100 injuries and 1,900 arrests. The first protests occurred when a group of farmers holding acreage needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers...