American actions

Press, 22 April 1986, Page 20

American actions

Sir—The evidence that Angola has a popular Government is surely in the existence of that Government, which led the revolt of the Angolan people that overthrew Portuguese colonialism. Only with popular support could the Afghan People’s Democratic Party have overthrown the backward feudal-landlord regime in their April 1978 revolution, and Mark Sadler (March 18) was coeval with both those historic events. The Reagan Administration, the worst, most recklessly bellicose of all United States Administrations since World War 11, has little regard for democracy, as shown by its refusal to accept the democratic right of the New Zealand people to refuse port access to American nuclear warships. The mythology of the god-like powers of “international bankers who imposed a tyranny on the Russian people in 1917,” I have read expounded in a pulp paper-back, “None dare call it conspiracy." I never believed that I would ever see this preposterous nonsense presented seriously in these correspondence columns.—Yours, etc., M. CREEL. April 18, 1986.