Talk:Clark Amendment

Questions re edit by User:Perspicacite
Hi there, Interesting bit of info you added to the article, re Israel serving as a US proxy in Angola. (Glad to see that stub of an article expanded somewhat!) However, it really ought to give some indication of when that conversation transpired -- can you provide the month & year? (and perhaps even how long a time-span Israel served as a proxy)

On a different point, I'm 99.9% certain that Jane Haapiseva-Hunter (whoever she is) has nothing to do with the book in question. I googled her name, and it looks like she writes on religious subjects -- not geopolitics, which is (plain)-Jane Hunter's area of expertise. I'm guessing that perhaps you gleaned your info from an article that quoted the book, rather than directly from the book itself?? If that's the case, it would be better to cite the article instead of the book. (That's what the Wikipedia guidelines call for.) Regards, Cgingold 12:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I assure you, she wrote the book. The book does not specify the year or the date so I do not know when they spoke. You can read the passage from the book here. Perspicacite 18:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello again, Thanks for the external link you gave me -- it was extremely helpful to have the actual text (as well as a link to add to the article).


 * I took out the name "Jane Haapiseva-Hunter" as a co-author, since she is clearly a separate individual who had nothing whatsoever to do with that particular book (by Jane Hunter) -- still not sure how her name got in there.


 * After reading everything over very carefully, I concluded that it would be necessary to rewrite your edit, which was, I'm afraid, somewhat misleading. The main thrust of it -- Israel serving as proxy arms supplier -- is still there, of course (though slightly rephrased). And I quoted Hunter's entire passage re Kissinger, etc. in the footnote. But I removed the Meridor quote, since it was not actually a response to Kissinger -- in fact, it was cited in an entirely separate paragraph from the one that dealt with Angola. Good for context in the book, but tangential to this particular article. Regards, Cgingold 13:20, 30 June 2007 (UTC)