Cuban DId-WI
Socialist Press1980 1980-05-28Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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There is more than one type of manoeuvre in the complex world of international diplomacy and power And one of the most intluential kinds is the military manocuvre.
Forthe Kremlin bureaucracy the costly and embarrassing invasion of Afghanistan has had from Saudi Arabia, and donations from the viciously reactionary regimes of the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia were immediately described as aid for the 700,000 Afghan refugees now encamped in Pakistan and Iran-and not as money for arms.
While verbally supporting the Afghan reactionaries, the conference went on to appoint headed the moves towards political accomodation with the Stalinists.
The Saudi Arabian and Gulf regimes, on the other hand are unambiguously aligned with the imperialists, but find themselves mbarassed by the US commit ment to support the Zionist state of Isarel.
With the hard-line Begin regime taking Parnamentary PLO leader Arafat wịth Khomeini Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) were able together with: the Libyan and Syrian delegations to lead a strong anti-American current which succeeded in establishing 17 • separate! condemnations of the US in conference resolutions.
As imperialism in South East Asia is once more rocked by • a massive popular revoltthis time against the US puppet
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