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The country 's apartheid government devoted Expend_resource considerable effort towards presenting Presence the war as part of a containment programme against regional Soviet expansionism and used Using it to stoke Convincing public anti-communist sentiment .

The United States gained Getting several island possessions spanning Self_motion the globe and a rancorous new debate Quarreling over the wisdom of expansionism .