Word: crocker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence the Botha government's policies is marginal, even though the U.S. is South Africa's largest trading partner. Still, Washington is clearly miffed at Pretoria's new crackdown, coming as it did at a time when the U.S. had hoped that Botha was becoming more moderate. Said Chester Crocker, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: "We think that what the South African government has done is to shoot itself in both feet...
Times have changed since Betty Crocker made her debut in 1936 as a symbol of General Mills, and so has she. With five face-lifts through 1980, Betty grew younger and more modern. The sixth edition of General Mills' classic cookbook, published last week, presents Betty with a distinctly young urban professional look...
...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...
...impossible to believe that Crocker, the rest of the State Department, the CIA and the more hawkish members of Congress have been so utterly deceived by Savimbi. However, there is a real reason for the ostensibly plausible yet strategically reckless rationalization for propping up the new interventionist cause celebre: defense of South African hegemony over mineralrich Namibia...
...widens the immoral marriage of convenience between Botha and Savimbi into a bizarre menage a trois. If Savimbi can get what he wants, southern Africa will be faced with a radical state far more reminiscent of the Khmer Rouge than any form of democracy, and history will forever associate Crocker and Reagan with not one, but two, of the biggest foreign-policy debacles since the Sudetenland...