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...topics of defense and "neutrality" of the zone that American negotiators have scored their most notable breakthrough. Despite cries of Panamanian radicals for a total American pullout, the treaty calls for a gradual military reduction. The number of U.S. troops, now 9,000, presumably would decline and the 14 U.S. military bases would be reduced to four or five by the year 2000. At that time, the U.S. would have to pull out the last of its troops-or negotiate yet another treaty...
...rule in Rhodesia. For years black nationalists have been divided between relative moderates, such as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, and the more extreme forces, which now call themselves the Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. The moderates, while willing to accept a gradual transfer of power, have also been insisting that black Rhodesians be allowed to choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets...
Much of the big French bureaucracy is already packing up, though many civil servants will stay on to advise the new government. There will be a gradual reduction, probably by two-thirds, of the permanent military force of 6,000-including 1,500 crew-cut (and mostly German) members of the 13th Demibrigade of the famed Foreign Legion. Shopkeepers in Menelik Square hope the legionnaires will stay on. "They raise hell in drunken brawls and bust up a bar now and then," says one, "but at least they spend what they make here. Most of it is for drinking...
...Soviet demonstrations of military strength off their coasts. Like their Norwegian allies, Danish pilots must scramble regularly to counter Soviet incursions into their country's airspace. NATO experts are alarmed by the dramatic rise in the flow of Warsaw Pact naval strength in the region and by the gradual westward shift of amphibious exercises. Soviet, Polish and East German destroyers cruise year round at the Baltic end of the Danish Straits; Soviet destroyers patrol the Skagerrak from May to October, in effect controlling traffic from the North Atlantic in and out of the Baltic. Last year the Soviets held...
...school students who have virtually taken over the black protest movement, and who were the leaders of the Soweto riots, sound very different (see story page 28). They have a new feeling of power, and they are disillusioned with their parents' efforts to bring about peaceful change and gradual concessions from the government. Most of the young are convinced that this approach has failed. There is much rhetoric about having nothing to live for, but something...