Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978
Towards a World War?
Towards a World War?
As the EPLF spokesman in Khartoum Tsegai Dinish, put it: "The Cubans are not in Eritrea to play football." "The Russians and Cubans are mercenaries, and we shall defeat them." And in defeating the Soviet - Cuban intervention, the Eritreans will not only liberate themselves, they will make an important contribution to all peoples of the world.
For underlying the Soviet moves in Eritrea is the sharpening rivalry between the superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, for world domination. The Soviet Union is on the offensive. Each day which improves its strategic position brings closer the day on which a new world war will break out. In defeating the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa, the Eritreans will break up the timetable of war preparations by the two superpowers and help delay the outbreak of a new world war.