Namibia: Puzzling Package to Wrap

Getting rid of both South Africans and Cubans

Ever since his election, Ronald Reagan has sounded the theme of a new, "constructive" tilt in U.S. relations with racist South Africa. As the President has put it, "Can we abandon a country that has stood beside us in every war we've ever fought, * a country that strategically is essential to the free world?" Translating that concern into policy, however, has turned out to be a complex and tricky business. Just how much so became clear last week as fragments emerged of the evolving...

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