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...Bush, a former ambassador to China who has reportedly taken a strong interest in forming U.S. policy there, maintains that keeping good relations with those in power will help pro-democracy forces in the long...
...Saharan Africa is ill prepared for democratic government for other reasons as well. These countries lack the critical mass of educated voters that is essential. They have few democratic roots. "There is no concept of a loyal opposition," notes Smith Hempstone, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. "Dissent is equated with sedition." Most debilitating, though, is their sheer poverty, which makes it extremely difficult for a pluralist political system to thrive. Says Hempstone: "Africa missed the industrial revolution, which formed the basis of modern democracy in the West...
...example of an African country that works. But in conforming to the Western powers' model for an ally, President Daniel arap Moi draws the line at multiparty democracy. Not even the implicit threat of a cutback in aid to countries that fail to practice pluralistic politics, delivered by U.S. Ambassador Smith Hempstone earlier this month, has budged him. "Kenya," Moi replied to the envoy's comments, "does not require any guidance from outsiders on how to run its affairs...
...past three months. For the most part, Moi has tolerated the lively debate, but his security police have harassed those who have spoken out. Staring down Kenya's foreign benefactors, who supply nearly 30% of Nairobi's budget, will not be so easy. While in Washington recently, Ambassador Hempstone says, he was assured that aid to Africa would not be diluted for the moment -- but that he was right to be concerned...
Bush runs his own show, another lesson from the Reagan calamity. When the word came that Polhill's deliverance was imminent, the President was fishing off Key Largo, Fla. He got Ambassador to Syria Ed Djerejian on the phone before Djerejian was to pick up Polhill from the Syrian couriers. "Tell them that any improvement in relations is dependent on the release of all the hostages," Bush cautioned. Within five minutes of that phone call, Djerejian, who once worked in the Reagan White House, had Polhill in his car, heading back to the U.S.embassy...