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Angola: The Present Opportunity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

John A. Marcum
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As remote and improbable a venue for a crisis in American foreign policy as Quemoy or the Gulf of Tonkin, Angola (1975) came to assume a Munich-like symbolism in the calculations of Americans who perceived a threat of Soviet expansionism into the third world during the latter years of the Brezhnev era. Smarting from a political/military shutout in Angola that came on the heels of a humiliating American exodus from Saigon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pointed to Angola as the “principal” cause of a deterioration in U.S.-Soviet relations. Subsequent policy confrontations over Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia reinforced this perception of Angola as the beginning of the end of detente.

Type
Focus: U.S. and U.S.S.R. Perspectives on African Policy
Information
African Issues , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 1988 , pp. 15 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1988 

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Notes

1. The Economist, March 12, 1988; “Logistics, Key to Relief in Angola,” Africa Recovery, New York, United Nations, December 1987; Uprooted Angolans: From Crisis to Catastrophe. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Committee for Refugees, 1987.

2. Marcum, John A., “Regional Security in Southern Africa: Angola,” Survival (London), January-February 1988; New York Times Google Scholar, May 18, 1988 and May 31, 1988.

3. Tad Szulc in the Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1988.

4. Figure cited by James Brooke, New York Times, June 12, 1988.

5. Sunday Telegraph (London), November 15, 1987.

6. P.W. Botha interviewed by Arnaud de Borchgrave, Washington Times, March 14, 1988.

7. Los Angeles Times, August 12, 1988 and August 13, 1988; Angolan representative at the U.N., Manuel Pedro Pacavira, New York Times, August 12, 1988.

8. Marcum, John A., presentation at the Symposium on “Myth, Reality and the Future in Southern Africa.” March 30-31, 1988, Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, Georgia Google Scholar.