Word: angolans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divinity school student, he protested Gulf Oil's operations in Southern Africa. Mendelsohn will probably not say a word about Gulf today, choosing to ignore the fact that this American oil company pays the communist dictatorship of Angola $2 billion in hard currency annually in taxes and royalties. The Angolan regime is kept in power by 30,000 Soviet-armed Cuban troops. Luanda pays these Soviet proxies with the hard currency provided by Gulf. By its own admission, the Angolan regime would collapse without Gulf Oil. No were does an American business play as important a role in keeping...
...last month. On February 18, Chester A. Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, unveiled the administration's decision to provide Jonas Savimbi's guerillas, who are fighting against the Angolan government, with at least $15 million in anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles...
...course, Secretary of State George C. Shultz had already denied that such a plan existed on January 25. But Crocker, best known for formulating the adminstration's policy of "constructive engagement" with the racist regime in South Africa, admitted that the Administration had already decided to aid the Angolan rebels...
...irony of it all is that while "constructive engagement" with the white regime in South Africa has failed miserably, it would be an excellent policy toward the putatively Marxist MPLA. The Angolan government really isn't all that Marxist--it allows American oil companies to conduct business there in exchange for $2 billion a year in tax revenue...
Legally, there are two firms. Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a lobbying operation, represents Bethlehem Steel, the Tobacco Institute, Herbalife, Angolan "Freedom Fighter" Jonas Savimbi and the governments of the Bahamas and the Philippines. Black, Manafort, Stone & Atwater, a political-consulting firm, has helped elect such powerful Republican politicians as Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms...