The normally loquacious Moammar el Gadaffi erstwhile champion of Arab nationalism and bogeyman of United States President Ronald Reagan (and many others) in the 1980s spent the weeks of the Iraq war in a state of purdah...
Opposition leaders such as the Democratic Party's Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere Winnie Byanyima and Okumu Ronald Reagan had petitioned against the 2002 Political Organisations Act which banned parties from holding rallies campaigning in elections and opening offices outside Kampala; they claimed that this rendered political parties 'non-functional and inoperative' imposing a one-party state...
'This has the possibility of becoming a new South Africa ' said one staffer for a black congressman who noted that sanctions against Pretoria were enacted over ex-President Ronald Reagan's veto some 15 years ago...
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...
