who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Africa under both Bush and Ronald Reagan...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
Its hiring policy seems to encompass the political landscape: Samuels Associates whose partner Whitney Schneidman was close to the Democratic Party and is now Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa and C/R International whose Director Robert Cabelly was Special Assistant to the Republican Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during President Ronald Reagan's strong support for Jonas Savimbi's rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
Bush who patently lacks the foreign policy knowledge of his father (President from 1988 to 1992) and whose views on diplomacy appear to be as abrasive as those of his father's predecessor Ronald Reagan...
Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...
Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...
Even his political opponents reluctantly concede he has considerable political skills; others grudgingly refer to him as ‘Teflon II' (after the first ‘non-stick' president America's Ronald Reagan)...
Not since Chester Crocker Assistant Secretary of State for Africa under Ronald Reagan has an Assistant Secretary had as good access to the President and Secretary of State as Rice...
In President Ronald Reagan's time sanctions against South Africa were forced on the administration by the cities and by Congress...
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- CONGO-KINSHASA
Some Zaïreans make the point that much of Zaïre's debt was made available through the IMF and World Bank at the urging of United States' President Ronald Reagan's administration (with French and European Union support) while the Mobutu regime's kleptocratic tendencies were widely known...
D in Nigerian Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles Wolpe chaired the Committee on African Affairs but had little success in fighting the Republican policies of Ronald Reagan and later George Bush and their pointmen for Africa...
It is a heavy blow for all the US companies whose assets in Libya have been lying idle since 1987 when President Ronald Reagan told them to stop operations there...
