Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0675; Whom Should We Back in Angola?
- Episode Number
- S0675
- Episode
- Whom Should We Back in Angola?
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-0k26970k8c
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The question is, as Mr. Buckley phrases it at the beginning of this rich and absorbing hour: "Should the United States, or should it not, assist Jonas Savimbi in his struggle to unseat the government of the MPLA, which survives because of military aid from the Soviet Union, and because of 30,000 to 45,000 Cuban troops?" Mr. Lewis says no--mainly because South Africa is backing Savimbi, and we would undermine our credibility with black South Africans if we did so too. Mr. de Borchgrave points out that Savimbi's UNITA is part of "this incredible new phenomenon called anti-Communist national liberation fronts," and Mr. Buckley amplifies this point: "Savimbi is engaged in Angola in exactly the same thing as the Contras are engaged in in Nicaragua. They're trying to decontaminate a revolution failed. They [the Contras] fought very hard to oust Somoza and bring some measure of liberty and democracy and justice. The whole movement was aborted by, in effect, a Marxist coup"--in Nicaragua by the Ortegas' Sandinistas, in Angola by Agostinho Neto's MPLA. Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1986-01-13
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Politics and government; Angola; Counterrevolutionaries; Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro; Agostinho Neto, Antonio, 1922-; Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola; Movimento Popular de Libertaca~o de Angola
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Lewis, Anthony
Guest: De Borchgrave, Arnaud
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.919 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0675; Whom Should We Back in Angola?,” 1986-01-13, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 29, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0k26970k8c.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0675; Whom Should We Back in Angola?.” 1986-01-13. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 29, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0k26970k8c>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0675; Whom Should We Back in Angola?. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0k26970k8c