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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... town . Even if there was a town generator , there was often no fuel to run it . Air - conditioning a building in a Somali town was totally out of the question - and so was this aid project . We terminated it , saving the American ...
... town , but it was a very old one . It is without question the town that the author of The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea knew as " Malao ” in the first century after Christ , being the only place on that coast that squares with his ...
... town " of Mogadishu but does not land . 1507 Tristao da Cunha , with 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 ...
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