He also met with the United States' Congress when President Ronald Reagan's administration was pursuing its 'constructive engagement' policy with the apartheid government...

Finance experts in Washington say that today's US government under President Donald Trump would be unlikely to underwrite it in the way that Ronald Reagan's government backed the Brady Bonds in the 1980s but that the World Bank and IMF might jointly guarantee the bonds with US consent...

' The talk was chaired by Chester Crocker the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Ronald Reagan administration which attracted anger from anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s for its 'constructive engagement' policy with South Africa...

Veteran Republican operative Bruce Fein served as Associate Deputy Attorney-General under President Ronald Reagan but he is not the one running the show for Atiku...

He adds that the US could act as an honest broker in some of the region's inter-state disputes and cites the deal brokered by Chester Crocker the Ronald Reagan administration's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs on Cuba's military withdrawal from Angola...

In the mid-1980s he was a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation a Washington-based anti-communist group with impeccable links to the government of the then President Ronald Reagan financed in part by the apartheid government in South Africa...

Insiders see Snyder as a 'cool head' with an encyclopaedic knowledge of conflicts in Africa and the proliferating armed factions dating back to the days when Chester Crocker ran Africa policy under President Ronald Reagan...

There is an ideological kink to iron out: the US stopped financing infrastructure in the 1980s because it clashed with President Ronald Reagan's government's notions of what the state should spend money on...

He first headed a US-backed paramilitary group set up under President Ronald Reagan to destabilise Gadaffi and was trained in guerrilla tactics by US officers...