Safirka: An American EnvoyKent State University Press, 2000 - 241 pages Peter S. Bridges's service as an American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges recounts his service in Panama during a time of turmoil over the Canal; in Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis; in Prague for bleak years after the Soviet invasion; in Rome when Italian terrorists first began to target Americans; and in key positions in three Washington agencies. In Somalia Bridges managed the largest American aid program in sub-Sahara Africa. He dealt with a postcolonial regime, hobbled both by traditional clan rivalries and by a leader who cared far less about Somalia's people and progress than about maintaining his control over that poverty-stricken, strategic - which soon erupted in civil war. |
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... United States of America . Many American voters still believe that the United States spends enormous amounts on for- eign aid , and few politicians or journalists try to correct this totally wrong belief . U.S. aid to developing ...
... United States for help . Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Somali refu- gees stream out of Ethiopia into Somalia . 1980 The United States and Somalia agree on U.S. access to military and naval facilities in Somalia in return for military ...
... United Nations Political Affairs ( UNP ) , U.S. State Department , 52–54 , 72 United States : aid to developing countries , 212-13 , 212n ; aid to Somalia , 78–79 , 80 , 81 , 85-89 ; Arms Control and Disarma- ment Agency ( ACDA ) , 37 ...
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