This issue of the newsletter starts with Smuts House Notes. It then covers topics on South Africa-changing American perceptions; some observations on US media coverage of South Africa in the 1980s; the Foreign Policy Dynamics of countries great and small in Africa and the South African issue investigates the structure of African relations and looks into dynamics as a means of understanding policy and policy settings, co-operation or national security; and the USSR, its communist allies and Southern Africa. The issue then concludes with book reviews.
