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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000706920005-6: AFRICA MAY STARVE, BUT IT HAS ARMS APLENTY

STnT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/13: CIA-RDP90-00965R000706920005-6 ARTICLE ON PAGE Africa May Starve7 But It Has WASHINGTON POST 22 September 1985 Even in relatively prosperous African countries under reasonably stable civilian rule, such as Cameroon and Kenya, military expenditures represent a growing percent- age of national budgets, and the arms trade composes a significant part of the nation's commerce with the outside world. Indeed, it is now a given of African politics that what- ever the nature of a government, it cannot survive unless it keeps it…