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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 23. September 17 1979

[Introduction]

Photo of Vietnam's Pham Van Dong and Cuba's Fidel Castro with a band in the background

Vietnam's Pham Van Dong and Cuba's Fidel Castro.

Then Cuban leader Fidel Castro opened Non-Aligned Summit Conference in [unclear: ana] last week, he had two main aims. first was to shift the overall emphasis of Movement to bring it more closely into with the foreign policy of the Soviet [unclear: on]. The second was to firmly establish [unclear: self] and Cuba at the head of the [unclear: ement].

[unclear: espite] the claims of some correspondents Castro was singularly successful in [unclear: ying] out this strategy, on retrospect the [unclear: ory] seems rather hollow. I have no doubt Moscow was hoping for rather more [unclear: h] the summit than what actually [unclear: tuated].

[unclear: he] Non-Aligned Movement started in due largely to the work of President Tito [unclear: ugoslavia] and since then has developed an influential bloc in world politics, [unclear: ecially] over the last ten years, the political [unclear: cle] of the Third World has increased [unclear: natically] and this in part has been due to leadership given by the Non-Aligned [unclear: ement]. The Movement today consists of third world countries and liberation [unclear: nisatkns]. It is, if you like, a United [unclear: ions] for the third world.