Angola

Angola headed our African agenda early in the Bush administration. US involvement in the Angolan civil war had begun in 1986 through “covert” assistance to Dr Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA insurgents. 1 It was a surrogate war between the Soviets and Cubans on one side and the United States and South Africa on the other. With President Bush and Secretary Baker placing a high priority on ending the Cold War, Angola was a logical place for superpower collaboration. Thus, we worked with the Soviets in Angola to solve what was euphemistically called “a regional problem.” Together we witnessed a four-year saga of high drama and heady triumphs, followed by abject despair as it all came apart in the end. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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• The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

  Open Access•Sidney Ditzion, Robert Jay Lifton et al.•American Quarterly•1969

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