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Foreign governments are particularly eager to retain savvy Washington insiders to guide them through the bureaucratic and congressional maze and polish their sometimes unsavory images in the U.S. The Marcos government in the Philippines has retained the well-connected lobbying firm of Black, Manafort & Stone for a reported fee of...
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...
Believe it or not, the administration's designs for Angola are even worse. State Department officials acknowledged last week that the U.S. will give $15 million in "covert" aid to Angolan rebels led by Jonas Savimbi. The rebels are fighting against the Cuban-backed Angolan government.
Item: Though the White House yesterday finally called on Ferdinand Marcos to step down, the Reagan Administration waffled for weeks while Corazon Aquino, the most inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on...
It was quite a reception for a little-known African rebel leader who has been unable to achieve power in ten years of fighting. Nonetheless, Jonas Savimbi, head of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), has become a test case for hard-line conservatives on the...