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After secret meetings mediated by Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, on Governors Island in New York harbor, the three nations announced they had signed a document outlining the "principles" under which Cuban and South African troops would be withdrawn from Angola and under which the territory of Namibia, which South Africa controls in defiance of United Nations resolutions, would gain its independence...
Flying back to Pretoria from talks in Cairo, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was in high good humor. Jauntily donning a red fez, Botha told reporters that with the aid of Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, negotiators from South Africa, Angola and Cuba had made progress on future discussions concerning the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola. But the euphoria dissolved the following day, when new fighting broke out. Pretoria said that twelve of its soldiers and 300 Angolans and Cubans were killed when a government force attacked a South...
...Angola's stalemated civil war took a tentative step toward peace last week. In London representatives of the U.S. and South Africa, supporters of Angola's UNITA rebels, met for the first time with officials of the Marxist-oriented Angolan government and its Cuban allies. Presided over by Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, the talks focused on a proposal by Cuba and Angola to withdraw Cuba's estimated 40,000 troops from Angola over a four-year period. In exchange, Cuba and Angola want the South Africans to remove their soldiers from Angola as well...
...locations for its four new teams--the Charlotte Hornets, the Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic, and the Minnesota Timberwolves--it made one particularly apt decision. Sending the Timberwolves to Minnesota--to fill in a void left by the Lakers in 1960--was an even better decision than headquartering Betty Crocker and the Pillsbury doughboy there...
Junior quarterback Tom Yohe earned the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award, the equivalent of the team's Most Valuable Player. This year, Yohe broke all of Harvard's singleseason passing records...