In This Review
Soviet Shadow Over Africa

Soviet Shadow Over Africa

By Walter F. Hahn and Alvin J. Cottrell

Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, 1977, 105 pp.
South Africa: The Vital Link

South Africa: The Vital Link

Edited by Robert L. Schuettinger

Council on American Affairs, 1977, 120 pp.
Sino-Soviet Intervention in Africa

Sino-Soviet Intervention in Africa

Edited by Roger Pearson

Council on American Affairs, 1977, 103 pp.

Shoehorning a quantity of half-assimilated information into their worst-case analysis, Hahn and Cottrell focus on sealanes, southern African minerals, and Soviet stratagems; in the long run, they hint, the West may have to intervene to protect "compelling strategic and economic stakes." Cast in the same genre, the two Council on American Affairs collections are notable chiefly as a platform for congressional members of a potential Southern Africa lobby, including Senators Dewey F. Bartlett, James McClure and Carl Curtis; Representatives John H. Dent and Larry P. McDonald.