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“... parties thought. But they thought it in vain. The reasons are very clearly displayed in Chester Crocker’s detailed review of these years, as seen from an unwaveringly Reaganite standpoint. What Crocker gives us is the record, unalloyed by any temptation to doubt his own wisdom, of State Department policy ...”

“... years. The major published source is the memoir of Reagan’s assistant secretary for Africa, Chester Crocker, who explains the outcome – the independence of Namibia – largely in terms of US patience, skill and wisdom. But a different explanation emerges from an analysis of newly declassified Cuban and US documents. In April 1987, the US ...”

“... a position described by the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr Chester Crocker: ‘This past year we have seen the MPLA government’ in Angola, strongly backed by Moscow and Havana, pursue an escalation of the war. They sought to reverse two years of Unita gains and deal a body blow to the movement. They failed. It is ...”

“... between Cuba, Angola and South Africa, negotiated by Ronald Reagan’s point man for Africa, Chester Crocker, drew the Cold War to an end in Southern Africa, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fourteen months after the agreement, Mandela was released. It is remarkable, but seldom acknowledged, that the superpowers walked away from ...”

“... the show. The Reagan administration had its own plan, known as ‘linkage’, thought up by Chester Crocker, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs. He sketched it out to the South Africans shortly after he took office: no independence for Namibia until all foreign troops had left Angolan soil. In conversations with Pretoria, whose ...”

“... cooking for Mobutu on his yacht. ‘Mobutu played us, and his environment, like a Stradivarius,’ Chester Crocker, the former US assistant secretary of state for Africa, said. ‘If we dared to mention IMF and World Bank concerns it would be: “Do you really expect me to think you’re asking these questions of Israel and Egypt? Perhaps I should convert ...”