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...government, for example, has accepted $100 million in development aid from the European Community. Still, with UNITA extending its influence, the war- weary Angolan army has gradually come under the control of Soviet military technicians. "Dos Santos must move very carefully in dealing with the Soviets," says one foreign diplomat in Luanda. "He does not yet enjoy enough of a power base to keep the Soviets in line -- or to do without them." At the same time, the President badly wants to encourage U.S. investment to help his devastated economy...
...fact, any rapprochement with Washington seems a long way off. The House of Representatives last week defeated a measure that would have barred covert U.S. aid to UNITA unless it was approved by Congress. Such signals are unlikely to deter Dos Santos. Not long ago a diplomat applying for a site to build an embassy in a choice Luanda location was surprised to find that it was reserved...
...matter of averting a political defeat as of sustaining its tattered policy of "constructive engagement." The White House was searching frantically last week for ways of winning enough Republican votes to sustain a presidential veto. One plan was to announce immediately the appointment of Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat, as the new U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. At the same time, the President would issue an Executive Order, much like the one announced last year, imposing limited new sanctions against South Africa. Also in the planning stage was an African trip by Secretary of State George Shultz. Thus, through...
...Factions, who is serving a four-year sentence in Lyons for illegally possessing weapons and false identity papers. Abdallah's fingerprints were also discovered in an apartment found to contain the Czech-made pistol used in the 1982 Paris killings of U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. French authorities, however, say they still lack sufficient evidence to try him in connection with those cases. Persistent rumors that the French might be considering his release have led the U.S to voice its opposition to such a move...
...sustain a veto, Reagan will need to pick up more than 20 votes in the Senate, where the sanctions bill passed by an overwhelming 84 to 14. The President hopes to win over some Senators by nominating Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to Liberia, to be Ambassador to South Africa. Reagan is also counting on the European Community to implement milder measures. This week the twelve E.C. foreign ministers are scheduled to adopt a package of restrictions that would ban imports of South African coal, steel, iron ore and gold coins...