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...influence the results of an election they are administering cannot be entrusted to tabulate the results of that election fairly. Should the AAA slate fail, I for one will never be fully convinced that the same unprincipled actions that led to electioneering did not also characterize the vote count. Chester W. Hartman...
...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...
Despite the President's rhetoric, many Administration officials realize that a blanket pledge to aid anti-Communist insurgencies everywhere entails unacceptable risks. Angola is a case in point. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker revealed to a congressional committee last week that the U.S. had set "the process in motion" to provide some $15 million in covert funds to the rebels in Angola. The State Department hopes that the covert aid will forestall a conservative effort in Congress to mandate above-board funding...
Only three years ago, Commodore International of West Chester, Pa., was the hottest name in a hot game: home-computer sales. Its Commodore 64 was the Volkswagen of computers, a low-cost, dependable model that became the best- selling machine in the business. The company's earnings reached a record $144 million in its fiscal year...
...South Africa's support for U.S. aid, Shultz has argued that open U.S. aid would jeopardize relations with black African nations and compromise the neutral American role in persuading South Africa to withdraw from Namibia, the former territory of South West Africa that borders Angola. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker has been pursuing a diplomatic solution that would consist of a Cuban withdrawal from Angola in return for a South African withdrawal from Namibia. Afterward, Savimbi could attempt to pressure the M.P.L.A. to hold the free elections that he says he wants...