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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... four hundred feet long , it was painted white and had a top speed of a dozen knots . Wanzor and his officers and crew were not navy but civil service ; there was also a navy unit , headed by Lt.Cdr . Robert Booker , that did the ...
... four hundred Portuguese , attacks and burns the town of Brava . 1499 1506-43 Ahmed Gran , Somali Muslim leader who attacks the Ethiopian empire . 1533 Stefano da Gama , son of Vasco da Gama , is the first European to come ashore at ...
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