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February 15, 1982
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Roger Kanet, a political science professor at
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point at a round table discussion at the
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Student Conference on National Affairs.
Kanet was one of two speakers at the
conference Friday.
by Laura Williams
Battalion Staff
Soviet foreign policy in 1982
will be more extensive and in
volvement in Third World
countries will be more concen
trated, a University of Illinois
E olitical science professor said
ere Friday.
Roger E. Kanet spoke on
“Soviet Foreign Policy in De
veloping Countries: A Look at
Africa and Latin America” in
the fourth keynote speech of the
27th Student Conference on
National Affairs.
“There is far greater focus on
the use of the military instru
ment,” Kanet said in reference
to changes in Soviet foreign poli
cy over the last twenty years.
In the 1960s, Soviet economic
assistance totaled about $800
million, and military assistance
totaled about $500 million
annually, he said.
“But in the 1970s, Western
statistics — which can be some
what supported by Soviet econo
mic statistics — indicate that
arms transfers are running in
the neighborhood of $4 billion a
year, while economic assistance
is only slightly higher (than in
1960), in the neighborhood of
$500 million per year,” he said.
“This is a fantastic increase in
the significance of the military
component in Soviet policy.”
Another major change in
Soviet policy has been the in
volvement in political groups in
Third World countries, Kanet
said.
“The Soviets have been in
such countries as Ethiopia train
ing domestic security police and
security forces to prevent a
coup,” he said.
The Soviets also have empha
sized party-to-party relation
ships with the Marxist-Leninist
groups, he said.
“In my own view, this is also to
institutionalize the revolution to
insure that just because some
one dies and a new president is
selected, the whole political
orientation will not change.”
Kanet said the Soviets Union’s
major competitive edge over the
United States is its rapid delivery
of arms.
“The average delivery time
for Soviet arms is 12 months,
where that for the U.S. is three
years,” he said.
Third World countries have
reoriented their political ties to
ward the Soviet Union because
the the Soviets proved that they
could provide security support
far more effectively than the
People’s Republic of China, he
said.
“They are likely to make the
mistakes which a number of
other African Socialist states
have already made — namely
destroyed what development
was there in the first place,” he
said.
The years following Water
gate and the Vietnam conflict
also set the United States behind
the Soviet Union, he said.
“American political leaders
realized they could no longer
engage in the kinds of adventur
istic intervention policies over
seas as they had in Vietnam be
cause of the changed attitude of
the American people,” he said.
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Solidarity’s worst enemies
were other Poles — not Russians
— a speaker at a morning ses
sion of the Student Conference
On National Affairs said Friday.
Dr. Marcin Sar, a visiting re
searcher at the Rockefeller
Foundation in New York, said
the Soviet Union must have
been involved in the planning of
martial law. The move cost Po
land so much — in trade abroad
and in lost work-days at home —
that the Soviets must have
agreed to it well in advance, he
sard.
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sians probably would have left
the country alone had Solidarity
produced economic results. Un
fortunately, the country’s pro
duction dropped sharply after
the beginning of the Solidarity
movement, which brought eco
nomic and political unrest.
That unrest panicked the rul
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Party, Sar said. They were afraid
the free trade union would top
ple them from power through
its program of renewal — poli
tical reforms and more local
control of the economy.
Leaders of the independent
trade union then started deman
ding more freedom. After
attempts to pacify them failed,
Sar said, Communist hard-liners
asked the Soviet Union to inter
vene in the summer of 1981.
“The main opponents of re
newal were inside, not outside,
of Poland,” Sar said. “Twice,
they publicly asked the Soviets
for assistance. That means inva-
When the Soviets didn’t inter
vene, Sar said, the party was
forced to use the army to sup
press the free trade movement.
But the military government’s
biggest problems still lie ahead,
he said.
“The militia, the riot police
and the army can’t ... run the
factories,” Sar said. “They can’t
overcome the distress of the
workers. Instead, the govern
ment will have to come up with
incentives to get people back to
work.”
He predicted that the Polish
government will reach some
kind of compromise with the
workers. But the West can do
nothing to help or influence the
outcome, he added.
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