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Ronald Wilson Reagan

Date of Birth: 6 February 1911
Place of Birth: Tampico, Illinois
Died: 5 June 2004


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Strategic resources and global rivalries

Competition with the Soviet Union sharpened following President Ronald Reagan's establishment of a Strategic Minerals Task Force in which US mining company executives played a lead role...


Sick man, sick opposition

Ben-Menashe's past triumphs have included missions for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime when Ben-Menashe encouraged opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to talk about plans to remove the President five years ago; and 20 years ago he was accused of helping to delay the release of United States' hostages in Iran to boost Ronald Reagan's election campaign...


The hyperinflation club

A former economic advisor to late United States President Ronald Reagan Steve Hanke warns that the worst is yet to come claiming that Zimbabwean inflation is already worse than that under the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1930s...


Flirting with the enemy

We must talk One leaked document is a paper by Eastwood and the late United States President Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Richard Murphy entitled 'We must talk to political Islamists in the Middle East - and not just in Iraq'...


Parliament comes alive

Last week police arrested two opposition MPs Ronald Reagan Okumu and Michael Nyeko Ocula and charged them with the murder in February 2002 of a local official in Gulu in the war-torn north...


Hannibal's campaign

Bush dropped the trade sanctions imposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 the big United States' firms retrieved the concessions that Libya had carefully kept in their name...


Getting to know the Colonel again

Under President Ronald Reagan he presided over a collapse of US-Libya relations; El Gadaffi's regime sponsored terror attacks on US and other targets and in 1986 Washington bombed one of his houses in Tripoli killing his daughter...


The quiet pro-American

The normally loquacious Moammar el Gadaffi erstwhile champion of Arab nationalism and bogeyman of United States President Ronald Reagan (and many others) in the 1980s spent the weeks of the Iraq war in a state of purdah...


The great U-turn

Opposition leaders such as the Democratic Party's Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere Winnie Byanyima and Okumu Ronald Reagan had petitioned against the 2002 Political Organisations Act which banned parties from holding rallies campaigning in elections and opening offices outside Kampala; they claimed that this rendered political parties 'non-functional and inoperative' imposing a one-party state...


Caution, lobbies at work

'This has the possibility of becoming a new South Africa ' said one staffer for a black congressman who noted that sanctions against Pretoria were enacted over ex-President Ronald Reagan's veto some 15 years ago...


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