Volume 25, Number 20 · December 21, 1978
Angola: A Story of Stupidity
By Gerald J. Bender
The Angolan Revolution Volume II: Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976)
by John A. Marcum
MIT Press, 473 pp., $25.00
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
by John Stockwell
Norton, 285 pp., $12.95
In June 1975, Professor John Marcum—then president of the African Studies Association and the leading American expert on Angola—warned the African Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee against American intervention in the Angolan civil war. 'The most important thing the American Government can do in Angola,' he cautioned, 'is to refrain from projecting parochial or ideological intolerance into its perception of the situation there. Washington should, above all, avoid the trap of overreacting to hostile rhetoric and socialist advocacy and of identifying potential 'enemies.' '
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