On the Right

New York, Sept. 9—If you desired, Thursday last, to take your news from evening television, and relied on CBS, you would have come upon the story of the South African incursion into Angola as follows.

Dan Rather: “South Africa’s incursion into Angola evoked condemnations from governments around the world—with one major exception. The only vote supporting South Africa’s right to participate in the discussion on the future of the territory of Namibia [was the United States’], … Its lone support for the South Africans has evoked some comments.”

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

New York, Sept. 9—If you desired, Thursday last, to take your news from evening television, and relied on CBS, you would have come upon the story of the South African incursion into Angola as follows.

Dan Rather: “South Africa’s incursion into Angola evoked condemnations from governments around the world—with one major exception. The only vote supporting South Africa’s right to participate in the discussion on the future of the territory of Namibia [was the United States’], … Its lone support for the South Africans has evoked some comments.”