Arms for Syria? South Africa. (US will try to stop Nelson Mandela and the South African government from trading with its enemy Syria)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 18, 1997 | Copyright information

Armscor, South African's apartheid-days arms merchant still exit although it has been overhauled. During 1995-1996, weapons were South Africa's second largest manufactured export. Separating villain clients from others is not simple, but the US government will work to sway the Africans their way.

JOHANNESBURG

"WE DETEST this kind of behaviour," thundered the message from President Nelson Mandela's office this week: "They are not going to tell us what to do." They? The United States, no less. A report had leaked out suggesting that the South African cabinet had provisionally approved a ...

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