Reagan on Apartheid South Africa

" "Can we abandon a country that has stood by us in every war we've fought, a country that is strategically essential to the free world?" Reagan asked in a 1981 CBS News interview. The Reagan administration invited senior South African security officials to the United States, violating a U.N. arms embargo, and the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have imposed economic sanctions on Pretoria. Reagan also had Mandela placed on the U.S. international terrorist list, where the anti-apartheid leader remained until 2008." (thanks Amir)