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...Crocker credits the breakthrough in negotiations to his strategy of linking the competing interests with the comprehensive settlement he has mediated. He believes the antagonists in the regional drama have gradually come to accept his plan as their only way out of an inconclusive struggle. Says Crocker: "You have to create your own wind in the sails...
Just as crucial, perhaps, was South Africa's realization that its best interests lay in reaching a Namibia settlement while the Reagan Administration was still in office. At the same time, the Soviets started throwing their weight behind the peace process. Crocker has held half a dozen meetings with his Soviet counterparts since March to discuss the superpowers' role in the conflict and to ask Moscow to urge both the Angolans and the South Africans to be flexible...
Even so, some diplomats are skeptical that Pretoria will honor its commitment to leave Namibia, which it has administered for 73 years. More than once during the past seven years, the South Africans have dashed Crocker's hopes for peace. Perhaps to show its good faith, South Africa has invited U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to visit Pretoria as soon as possible to discuss independence for Namibia...
...Cuba plan to reconvene next week to discuss such issues as a schedule for withdrawal of Cuban troops, future South African aid to Angolan rebels and the presence of bases of the African National Congress, which is fighting a guerrilla campaign against South Africa. Asked about the upcoming negotiations, Crocker said, "Some bullets have been bitten. There are some more that have to be bitten. And soon...
...will the fall of President Sein Lwin put an end to a quarter- century of harsh one- party rule and isolation from the rest of the world? -- The impending agreement between South Africa, Angola and Cuba is a triumph for U. S. Diplomat Chester Crocker. -- Iraq and Iran agree to a cease- fire, but chemical weapons, those hellish poisons will remain the disturbing legacy of their...