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South Africa into the 1980s

Edited by Richard E. Bissell and Chester A. Crocker
Reviewed by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Spring 1980
South Africa into the 1980s
Edited by Richard E. Bissell and Chester A. Crocker
Westview Press
1979
248 pp.
$22.00
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This solid collection offers the best case recently made for serious consideration of South Africa's strategic importance. Despite insistent questioning of the realism of prevailing U.S. policy assumptions, however, no alternatives to the present policy emerge clearly.

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