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Brezhnev condemns
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United Press International
MOSCOW — Soviet Presi
dent Leonid Brezhnev ended
five weeks of silence with a
eech backing Argentina’s
aim to the Falkland Islands
and condemning Britain’s
attempt to block the “freedom
movement” in Latin America.
Brezhnev condemned Bri
tain for “colonial brigandage” in
a speech Tuesday toasting the
Soviet Union’s close ties to Latin
America in general, and to
Nicaragua in particular.
The Communist Party lead
er, 75, linked the Falklands
takeover by Argentina to what
he said was the freedom move
ment spreading across Latin
America.
“The peoples want to be mas
ters of their land, of their
homes, be it in Central America
or in the Southern Atlantic,”
Brezhnev told a Kremlin state
dinner for visiting Nicaraguan
leader Daniel Ortega.
“Dangerous complications”
such as the Falklands crisis arise
“precisely
forces which are trying to pre
serve or restore their positions
of dominance and to impose
foreign oppression,” Brezhnev
added.
“They do not stop at threats
and pressure, blackmail and
blockade, or the use of arms,
and they resort to actions hailing
back to the time of colonial bri
gandage.”
The Kremlin leader’s com
ments, though unmistakeably
aimed at Britain, did not name
the Falklands combatants and
he did not pledge any specific
assistance to Buenos Aires.
Brezhnev may have found it
awkward to praise Argentina’s
anti-Communist regime —
whose principal link to Moscow
is grain and meat sales — in the
presence of former guerrillas
from the Marxist-leanmg Man
agua government.
Although Soviet press com
mentary has been solidly behind
Argentina, the remarks were the
first by Brezhnev. They also
marked his first speech in five
weeks, since the Uzbekistan trip
that precipitated widespread re
ports of serious illness.
Soviet television coverage of
Brezhnev’s formal meeting with
Ortega before the state dinner
showed the Communist leader
to be vigorous and alert.
Earlier Tuesday a semiofficial
spokesman repeated the Krem
lin’s rejection of President
Reagan’s proposal for a U.S.-
Soviet summit conference in
June at the United Nations. He
ridiculed speculation that
Brezhnev’s health was a factor.
Brezhnev did not guarantee
any aid to Ortega, who was be
lieved to be seeking help for
Nicaragua’s billion-dollar debt.
However, diplomatic observers
noted the Soviets were giving
him an especially warm recep
tion.
Brezhnev pledged solidarity
with Nicaragua in its “difficul
ties and tension in relations”
with the United States.
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