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On April 22, Pinochet and Uruguay's president Bordaberry met in Montevideo and after haranguing the "international communist conspiracy" presumably discussed the free exchange of leftist exiles throughout the continent. Videla's regime completes the fascist bloc which now covers virtually all of South America. Among these nations there is...
There was, in fact, little evidence that Kissinger's speech had cost the President many votes in Texas, or anywhere else for that matter. The local press did not give the address much play; minds were doubtless made up on other issues. What is more, Kissinger's African...
...long, NASA has placed aboard it two stainless-steel sheets, each etched with a message conceived by Astrophysicist Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Designed to inform extraterrestrial visitors or future inhabitants of the earth about the LAGEOS mission, the message shows three maps of the earth, depicting the continental drift that the satellite will help observe. The uppermost of the maps shows the continents as they are thought to have existed 225 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined. The middle map is a picture of the planet as it exists today and indicates the satellite...
To both black African and senior diplomats on the continent, the Secretary's main achievement was that he had forcefully served notice that Washington intended to play an active role in helping to achieve majority rule in southern Africa. As one Kissinger aide said: "It's the first...
Next Step. Nonetheless, the U.S. has a long way to go to overcome the residue of skepticism left from years of neglect of Africa. Africans have not forgotten Secretary of State William Rogers' trip to the continent in 1970, when he pledged a "new interest" in black Africa. A...