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...grinds on despite all efforts to stop it. The latest proposal was in some ways the most impractical: before flying back to Paris from a U.S. visit, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing offered to airlift French troops to act as a peace-keeping force. The proposal was rejected out of hand by Lebanese Moslems and the Palestinians. At least one knowledgeable observer suggested last week that the U.S. might have contributed to the impasse: L. Dean Brown, a special envoy sent by Washington to seek an armistice in Lebanon, told the New York Times that the fighting...
...advance. Some 80,000 refugees were heading south, threatening to overrun four camps South Africa maintains just inside Angola, already crowded with 12,000 earlier refugees. Last week the United Nations refused to give South Africa money to deal with the additional flood, but the Red Cross promised an airlift of blankets, tents and medicine...
Relief also came from more than 20 nations-including Nicaragua, where only three years ago another earthquake devastated Managua, the capital, killing 10,000. The U.S. organized an airlift, carrying everything from water tanks and tents to a fully staffed 100-bed field hospital. Private agencies and church groups also volunteered...
...Troop Airlift. Some Western observers read the comparative lull in the fighting last week as a sign that the kind of debate going on in Moscow was also going on in Luanda. As one longtime British Angola watcher put it, Neto and his lieutenants may be realizing that "even if they win the next battle, it's going to be tough to win the war." The Luanda government, moreover, denied that it was solidly in the Soviet camp...
...that it would pursue a policy of nonalignment and deny military bases to any foreign power. At the 15th anniversary celebration of its revolt against Portuguese colonial rule last week, Luanda circumspectly kept Cuban troops and Soviet advisers out of sight. Intelligence sources, meanwhile, said that the Cuban troop airlift has been halted for two weeks. Some observers speculated that a secret quid pro quo had been worked out in exchange for the South African withdrawal...