----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling"
Subject: Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest,
Cuba, Nicaragua, Peoples Republic of Congo, North Vietnam, how global do you want it to be?
Not sure about the Congo, other than it was more of a UN failure (and Belgium bailing on very short notice) that caused Lumumba to ASK the USSR for help. I'm pretty sure that embargoing Cuba had something to do with them approaching Russia. Nicaragua might have gone differently if the USA had not backed the Contras. (and when did diplomatic ties automatically mean conquest anyway?) North Vietnam also had strong diplomatic ties to Russia, but this would only be construed as a Soviet conquest by the very paranoid.
I'm don't know where you get your information from, but I'm sure glad I don't smoke the same drugs as you.
William Robb
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