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...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 $900,000. Another Black, Manafort client is Angolan Rebel Jonas Savimbi (see box). Not to be outdone, the Marxist regime of Angola hired Bob Gray's firm to front for it in Washington. Two years ago, Gray told TIME that he checks with his "good friend," CIA Director William Casey, before taking on clients who might be inimical to U.S. interests. It is unclear just what Casey could have said...
When Savimbi came to Washington last month to seek support for his guerrilla organization, UNITA, in its struggle against the Marxist regime in Angola, he hired Black, Manafort. What the firm achieved was quickly dubbed "Savimbi chic." Doors swung open all over town for the guerrilla leader, who was dapperly attired in a Nehru suit and ferried about in a stretch limousine. Dole had shown only general interest in Savimbi's cause until Black, the Senate majority leader's former aide, approached him on his client's behalf. Dole promptly introduced a congressional resolution backing UNITA's insurgency and sent...
...part, Uncle Reagan reveled in the adulation from the singing, bouquet-waving crowds. The President had come to Grenada for a 5-hour visit last week to commemorate the U.S. invasion that swept away the country's ultra-Marxist "revolutionary council" in October 1983. "I couldn't feel closer to anyone at this moment than I do to you," he told the cheering islanders who had been given a national holiday by the government of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize to jam the dusty cricket field at Queen's Park...
...GEORGE'S, Grenada--Under a dazzling Caribbean sun, President Reagan yesterday retraced the steps of American invasion forces that ousted a radical Marxist government from this tiny island 27 months ago and vowed the United States also "must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua...
...Monge, who is credited with having kept Costa Rica afloat despite a $4.4 billion foreign debt. Arias also portrayed himself as the peace candidate, upholding his country's policy of neutrality while insisting that Costa Rica, which disbanded its army in 1948, must hold the line against the pro-Marxist Sandinista regime across the border in Nicaragua...