Chester Crocker
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Chester Arthur Crocker is an American diplomat and scholar who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9, 1981, to April 21, 1989, in the Reagan administration. Crocker, a
Crocker in 2006
Crocker in 2023
Cuban intervention in Angola
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The Cuban intervention in Angola began on 5 November 1975, when Cuba sent combat troops in support of the communist-aligned People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola against the pro-western coali
Chester Crocker
…occupation of Namibia (UNSCR 435/78). Crocker's policy linked the removal of South African forces from Namibia with the removal of Cuban forces from Angola, which many U.S. diplomats considered to be of vital importance. Without Cuban withdrawal, it was deemed unlikely by diplomats that South Africa would…
A Bristol Britannia, photographed in 1964.
Cuban-manned PT-76 tank in the streets of Luanda, 1976.
Fidel Castro 1978 speaking in Havana, Photo: Marcelo Montecino.
Destroyed lighthouse in Lobito, Angola, 1995