A birthday card and a chance glimpse of a recruiting poster put Jimmy Story on track for a career in foreign services. As the U.S. ambassador to Angola, he's helping promote trade between the two ...

In Mozambique only 1,500 natives qualified as assimilados in the decade from 1950 to 1960, raising the total to a mere 6,000. In Angola perhaps 30,000—0.7% of the population—have won ...