SOVIET ARMS AID TO ETHIOPIA ESTIMATED AT NEARLY $1 BILLION

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• Publication Date: April 11, 1978
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THE BALTIMORE SUN
11 April 1978
Soviet arms aid to Ethiopia
estimated at nearly S 1,.-Ii'llion-
Washington (Reuter)-The Soviet tanks, more than 50 Soviet MIG fighters
Union has committed close to $1 billion in - and huge quantities of armored cars, per-
military aid to Ethiopia, a Central Intel- ?sonnel carriers and artillery. Soviet and
ligence Agency official said yesterday. Cuban general officers planned and coor-
Soviet: military equipment has been dinated combat operations in Ethiopia in
flowing to;both Ethiopia and Angola faster volving more than 16,0,00, troops..
than local forces can absorb it, Frank Car Mr. Carlucci said.there were: even j
lucci, deputy CIA director-, told a Senate more Cuban soldier in Angola, with thou-.
Armed Forces subcommittee hearing: sands of them= engaged in active combat
He said the degree of Soviet and Cuban against forces of the National Union for
military activity in sub-Saharan Africa the,, Total Independence, of Angola in the.
was unprecedented, southern part of the country..
"We. are .witnessing .the, most deter
mined campaign to " expend' foreign influ The National Movement is one of, two
ence in this troubled'regionsinceit was .'Western-supported nationalist movements ;1
carved up by the European powers in the defeated in the Angolan civil-war by the
late Nineteenth`Century, Mr. '-Carlucci -Soviet-backed Popular-Mo-vement for the
said. Liberation of Angola.
The Soviet military aid equipment to In response to questions. Mr. Carlucci
.'Ethiopia now ranges close to $1 billion," said Cuban involvement elsewhere in Afri-
he said. ca included the Congo, Equitorial Guinea,
Aid deliveries include'more than 400 Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.
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