Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 3,000 South African troops began pulling out of Angola last week, however, some potentially explosive issues remained unresolved. For starters, the talks did not include representatives from either the Soviet-backed South West Africa People's Organization, which has an estimated 2,500 troops in Angola, or the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which is backed by the U.S. and South Africa and has an army of some 25,000 in Angola. UNITA insists that it will continue fighting...
...South African pullout from Angola by Sept. 1, by which time Cuba and Angola will present a timetable for the withdrawal of Cuban troops...
...phased withdrawal of most of the estimated 50,000 South African troops from Namibia to be completed by Feb. 1, 1989, and the deployment of a 7,500- member U.N. peacekeeping force...
...accord vindicates Crocker's tenacious, realpolitik brand of diplomacy. A former director of African studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Crocker was hired by the State Department in 1981 and assumed the job of finding a solution to the turmoil in Africa...
...Heritage Foundation, "I don't think he would ever have called them the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." If Reagan's beau ideal of the swashbuckling American good guy is Oliver North, Bush seems to prefer Chester Crocker. He admires the low- key Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs for his seven-year quest (as yet unfulfilled) of a settlement in Angola and Namibia...