The winds of change were blowing fiercely, with civil war in Rhodesia (called

Zimbabwe by its revolutionaries), Angola, and South West Africa (called Namibia by its revolutionaries). In this installment of Firing Line's coverage of the region (first taken up in #40, with Conor Cruise O'Brien, and visited periodically ever since), the discussion focuses on the question, Should the U.S. actively assist guerrillas, like Jonas Savimbi in Angola, whom we judge to be more democratic and less Soviet-inclined than their opponents? SS: "And when the Angolans come to the conclusion that they want the Cubans withdrawn, I think it's not an untenable assumption that they will go." WFB: "I don't understand your assumption that the Cubans would go or not go depending on what the Angolan people want."