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Article: In troubled waters. (Soviet Union influence in Indian Ocean)
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- National Review
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- July 18, 1986
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IN TROUBLED WATERS
SINGULARITY LITTLE seems to be written these days about the Indian Ocean. The thought occurred to me, yet again, on running my eye down the contents page of the latest issue of Strategic Survey (1985-86), just published by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (of which I am a long-standing but dormant member). Lots of topics, lots of areas, but only oblique references to that vast stretch of water between Africa and Australia.
Let me try, then, to fill the gap concerning this strategically vital area.
From the Soviet standpoint, the key points are: Aden and its hinterland (the People's Democratic ...