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...guerrilla movement was not united until 1980, when its leaders met repeatedly in Havana at the invitation of Fidel Castro. In exchange for Cuban promises of increased military aid, the guerrillas formed three organizations: 1) the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), an amalgam of revolutionaries and representatives of alienated left-wing Salvadoran political parties, whose job is to plead the guerrilla case abroad; 2) the Unified Revolutionary Directorate, a 15-member war council of the top guerrilla commandantes; and 3) the F.M.L.N. itself, a coordinating body for the guerrilla groups...
...ximo" kept the pair waiting in their hotel for two weeks, and they finally flew back to New York, though not before Adams had angrily given every Cuban official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing Adams to photograph him during a duck hunt (he bagged 76) at his country retreat outside Havana. "I heard you had a nasty temper," Castro said to the photographer at dinner later. "Why haven...
...from neighboring Angola. Last month representatives of the South African and Angolan governments negotiated a historic cease-fire in the smoldering, nearly 18-year-old war along the Angola-Namibia border. This raised new hopes for a breakthrough in the long-stalled negotiations over Namibia. Then last week in Havana, Angola's Marxist President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, unexpectedly issued a joint communiqué setting forth terms for a withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
Irked by references to the "disgraceful" and "repugnant" Pretoria regime, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha denounced the language of the Havana statement as "unacceptable." Nonetheless, despite the feverish rhetoric, U.S. officials were hopeful. Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "If the outcome of the Angolan-Cuban talks is progress toward Cuban troop withdrawal, I think that's positive...
...learned this lesson. The war in El Salvador seemed to be a slale-mate. No stalemate could have existed without the massive support of outside sources. I believed that through economic, political and security measures we should persuade the Soviets and Cubans to put an end to Havana's bloody activities in the hemisphere and elsewhere in the world. In Central America there could not be the slightest doubt that Cuba was at once the source of supply and the catechist of the Salvadoran insurgency...