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Even without such lofty words, the new treaty would have been reason enough for hope in Southern Africa. Calling for renunciation of the use of force by both sides and forbidding the support of guerrilla groups hostile to either government, the accord may mark the end of nearly a decade of increasing enmity between the two neighboring countries, each of which has accused the other of encouraging attacks by insurgent groups. Moreover, as Machel and Botha shook hands, there were indications that after decades of ruinous skirmishing between white-ruled South Africa and black nations close by, winds of peace...
Nevertheless, on the sensitive issue of the Lebanese-Israeli accord, Assad showed a pragmatic sense of restraint...
...deteriorated from our standpoint." Yet he argued that the U.S. had been right in trying to establish "a unified, stable and sovereign Lebanon." He placed most blame, perhaps rather naively, on Syria for refusing to withdraw its forces after Israel had agreed to do so in its May 17 accord with Lebanon...
...security accord offers a fresh glimmer of hope for peace throughout the region. Earlier this month Angola and South Africa agreed to a cease-fire and the disengagement of South African forces in Angola, to be monitored by a joint Angolan-South African commission. The U.S., which has played a key role in bringing the antagonists together, last week sent a team of diplomats to the Namibian capital of Windhoek to observe the progress. The improving climate prompted Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda to suggest that South Africa might one day even be welcome to join the Organization of African Unity...
...result of his shuttle diplomacy was a vague document, the May 17 agreement, calling for withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops from Lebanon. Syria, however, rejected the accord, claiming it rewarded Israel politically for invading Lebanon. Despite strong warnings from his own State Department experts, Shultz assumed incorrectly that Syria would go along...