At the United Nations, as black African countries force a test of U.S. attitudes,

Ambassador Gene Kirkpatrick explains Reagan administration policy towards southern Africa.

Secretary of State Hague yesterday said in his speech about human rights that human rights

violations by an authoritarian state are not as bad as those committed by a totalitarian

state, which category to South Africa fall into an apartheid?

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Welcome to blowback. I'm Brendan James.

And I'm Noah Colwin. And this is Season 6, Episode 7, Constellation.

In our last episode, we saw how Jimmy Carter's White House tried to solve its problem in southern Africa.

We saw how, despite the best efforts of the so-called dealers in the Carter administration,

it was their rivals, the bleeders, who ended up setting Cold War policy once again.

By the spring of 1980, both UN Ambassador Andrew Young and Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, were out.

National Security Advisor Zbignev Brzynski was very much in.

In Luanda, meanwhile, the Angolan's lost a founding father, Augustinio Netto, who died of cancer

in the autumn of 79, and the MPLA faced a rising threat, Unita and Jonas Savimbi.

Like a phoenix from the ashes, Savimbi's forces had been revived with support from South Africa, the

Safari Club, Western Europe, and the United States. Luanda, and its military allies from Havana,

now agreed that even worse might be yet to come.

In this episode, we'll see what happens when a new president enters the scene, Ronald Reagan.

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