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...small smile that creased his normally stolid face said more than a thousand press conferences: Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker was pleased. And with good reason. Seven years ago, he set out to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict involving Angola, Cuba and South Africa. Last week the three countries jointly announced "a de facto cessation of hostilities" in the 13-year-old war and pledged to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Angola and neighboring Namibia. The impending agreement is not only a personal triumph for Crocker but also one of the most impressive...
...Crocker remained cautious about declaring an end to one of the world's most complicated and protracted conflicts. "It's on the verge of the pieces either pulling together or blowing up very fast," he said. "What I'm trying to do now is focus attention and pressure on the big pieces not yet resolved -- primarily the schedule for Cuban withdrawal." Cuba and Angola have proposed a three-to-four-year timetable to remove its estimated 50,000 troops from Angola, while South Africa has called for a complete Cuban withdrawal by next June. Says Crocker: "There will have...
...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...
...funding the Nicaraguan contras, but, says Kim Holmes of the conservative 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...
...Crocker maintained "there is still a lot of hard work to do" before actual timetables for these events are set. But the South African delegate, Neil van Heerden, said he thought "momentum has been established" that will lead to a settlement...