An Entirely Man-Made Disaster
November, 1991
A Playbou Special ReportSix years ago, I was riding in a cargo plane 30,000 feet above the conflict in Angola. My companion was a bleary, hung-over Swedish pilot who was hitching a ride back to Europe. Below us, roads cut into fertile red soil and outlined fields of rich green. From five miles up, there were no signs of bombed bridges and burned-out schools, part of the mayhem and massacres that had plunged a nation into poverty and famine and had, in the span of a decade, claimed hundreds of th...
