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The Right's Last, Best Hope

Maren, Michael | December 19, 1987 issue

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The doctrine of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the ideological core of the U.S. Government's foreign policy, is on the brink of obsolescence. The invasion of Grenada four years ago is still its only tangible success, and its Central America policy is crumbling under the threat of peace. Proponents of the doctrine are in desperate need of a victory and think they may have found an opportunity in Angola. But in fact the only beneficiary of the U.S. government's Angola policy is South Africa, which has turned the Reagan doctrine into an insurance policy for apartheid. The Iran/contra hearings graphically illustrated the degree of Congressional apathy and confusion over Angola.

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INTERNATIONAL relations; UNITED States -- Politics & government; POLITICAL doctrines; APARTHEID; SEGREGATION; REAGAN, Ronald; APATHY; UNITED States

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