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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 22:48:51 EST
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PRAVDA
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| ``The Truth'' |
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VOLUME 47 NUMBER 5 FEBRUARY 22, 1990
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| Yevgeny Solo |
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REAGAN DENIES IRAN-CONTRA KNOWLEDGE
Former US Capitalist President Ronald Reagan said in a videotaped
testimony yesterday that he was utterly unaware of any military and
financial aid offered by his staff to the Nicaraguan contras at a
time when such activity was barred by Congress. Testifying in a
deposition to be used in the Iran-contra trial of his one-time
national security adviser, Admiral John M. Poindexter, Reagan said:
"I guess that I had never had any inkling that we were guiding their
strategy in any way." He was referring to the contras.
INTERVIEW WITH CASSANDRA SURRESOV
Surresov is a prostitute currently stationed in Moscva. When asked
about her childhood she says, "Nothing extraordinary." She said, "I
like sex and it seemed like a good idea at the time" when she was
asked about how she got to be a prostitute. She was thankful that
her profession is legal in the Soviet Union and said, "God forbid if
i was in someplace like America... then it would be illegal!" She
is proud of what she does and says "It never gets very boring"
although she was slightly put out that people do not seem to talk to
her as much anymore. She urges people to not be afraid to be seen
with her as the Soviet Union is much more relaxed about this kind of
thing.
DEATHS IN PERSIAN GULF BLAST
A captain and his first mate were killed and two other crew members
injured yesterday when a US-flagged Kuwait gas tanker exploded near
the mouth of the Persian Gulf, according to the ship's management
company. The "Surf City" burst into flames near the Iranian island of
Abu Musa, while traveling through one of the busiest shipping lanes
in the gulf. The area was also a staging ground for Iranian attacks
on gulf shipping during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. Kuawaiti and
American sources yesterday ruled out the possibility that the "Surf
City"'s fire was started by Iranian attack or a mine floating in the
Gulf waters.
DEFENSE MINISTER RETIRES
Defense Minister Nikolai Nokemov, after a lifetime of dedication and
service to the state, retired today. Comrade Dimitri Rorshakov will
be taking over the position of Defense Minister.
DE KLERK APPROVES ANC TALKS
In Cape Town, South Africa, President F.W. de Klerk yesterday
approved the first official talks with Nelson Mandela's African
National Congress, the guerrilla movement South Africa's white-run
government has fought for the past 30 years. The ANC said that de
Klerk should lift a three-year-old state of emergency, free political
prisoners, and repeal laws restricting political freedom before
formal negotiations could begin on a shared future for whites and the
five-to-one black majority.
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
"I think that this is spiffy weather that we've been having", and
"Just ducky" - the newly inaugurated President of the United States.
RECALLING FORMER US-SOVIET TENSIONS
Although the United States saw the end of World War II as the
beginning of a peacetime, in which nuclear weapons could be used to
stop all fighting, they were quickly proven wrong. The American
people were fed up with war, and a struggling peace-time military
(the US had never had a substantial peacetime military before WWII)
had great difficulty affecting the administration's foreign policy.
Full of the anger and pride from having taken control of World War
II, the Soviet Union saw a chance to extend its power. And while the
United States government took flimsy or half-hearted steps, communism
expanded greatly throughout the world, much to the glory of the
Soviets.
With great efforts, the Soviets upgraded their military to include
the nuclear bomb, and aided fanatics such as Cuba's Castro to take
power. The United States was at the same time aiding Cuba's General
Batista against the Cuban rebels, but eventually even after a US arms
embargo the inevitable happens and Castro gains military control of
Cuba in 1959.
Meanwhile, President Eisenhower in 1960 had approved the training by
the CIA of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban leadership. With Cuba
so close to Florida, the island is seen as a definite threat. Castro
has been trying to be two-faced with the US and USSR, a tightrope he
cannot balance on forever. Eisenhower's fears are proven correct and
in 1961 new president Kennedy takes on the old Bay of Pigs operation.
Unfortunately, Kennedy has reservations about the attack, and while
he reluctantly approves the old administrations' program, he
foolishly keeps them from having the air support that they had relied
on. The plan cannot succeed without this support, and Castro's men
completely destroy the attack.
Cuba's laws are changed around so that the new military leader can be
president. The US tries to be friendly by immediately recognizing the
new government. Castro refuses to aid the US in the Cold War against
the USSR, and further begins a radical program including
nationalizing all US property on Cuba that leads to Cuba becoming
socialist in 1961.
In October, 1962, with the Cold War growing, Soviet leader Khrushchev
installs nuclear missiles on Cuba, and as an American aeriel view
proves the danger, Kennedy went on television and radio to denounce
the Soviet Union, threatening retaliation. Castro promptly announced
the mobilzations of thousands of Cuban forces, as the US broadcast is
tantamount to a declaration of war. The very next day, Khrushchev and
Kennedy agree to meet, and the USSR removes its missiles while the
United States stops the full blockade of Cuba.
October, 1987: At an unusual three-day meeting at Harvard University,
Soviet and American participants in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
agreed that Nikita Khrushchev's installation of missiles in Cuba was
an adventurous move without deep consideration of the American
reaction. The Soviet panelists said the missiles were installed
because the Soviet Union was then convinced that a U.S. invasion of
Cuba was imminent. But the American participants said had such
invasion had been planned by the Kennedy administration.
RECALLING THE FALL OF CAPITALISM
Those Capitalists who are smug about the recent economic failures of
communism would be wise to remember the Great Depression of the
1930's from which Capitalism might never have risen had the Nazis not
provided the fervor that the common man needed to produce and build
to overcome the Depression. It was in part because of the German
people's desire to find a strong government that could solve the
Depression that Nazis were able to find support. Keep this in mind
when supporting a strong government that will solve Communism's
economic powers, possibly at the expense of our new-found pesteroika.
US PRESSES ISRAEL
The White House administration, apparently concerned that Middle East
peace talks could be hurt by the resettlement of Soviet Jews in the
occupied territories, increased its pressure on Israel yesterday to
stop the practice. Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d, in testimony
on Capitol Hill, said the United States would like Israel to adopt a
"clear and definitive policy" against placing Soviet emigres in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip. And a White House spokesman said the
President, during a phone call from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, repeated his opposition to new settlements. Baker also set
stiff conditions for the resumption of diplomatic or economic
activity with Nicaragua after the scheduled national election there
in two days. Baker said that he believed the Soviets had asked
Nicaragua to stop helping the Salvadoran rebels, but that assistance
was continuing regardless.
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