Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in southern africa to persuade white rhodesian leader ian smith to accede to black majority rule. While the 71‐page secret report offered five “options” for dealing with the black independence drive in africa, mr Kissinger, according to the sources, chose the policy that called for a. Hard as it might be to believe, kissinger was a swinger, a real swinger, according to the insiders in washington, new york, and los angeles. According to an nsc spokesman, kissinger initiated both groups after discussion with leaders of the club of rome during the 1974 population conferences in bucharest and rome. Kissinger and others feared that the region was on the brink of becoming a new battleground in the cold war
In light of these developments kissinger decided to intervene, seeking a negotiated solution that might bring about a peaceful end to minority rule. As the grand narrative of kissinger’s life story is written, his southern african interventions must be judged a failure as he neither ended colonialism nor minority rule in the region. The initialism lgbtq stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
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