Word: luanda
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...meantime, the BSA presidency will be filled by the current vice-president, Luanda M. Williams...
According to BSA Vice President Luanda M. Williams '99, students packed the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum to hear four panelists discuss the question: "Affirmative Action: Equal Opportunity or Reverse Discrimination...
Last week there was some cause for hope when the government in Luanda agreed to resume peace talks in response to a UNITA announcement that it was ready to accept last year's election results. But the rebel movement, which will be hit next month by U.N. sanctions that include a freezing of its global assets and the expulsion of its diplomats from world capitals, has yet to demonstrate its bona fides by relinquishing its hold over 65% of the country, a territorial concession demanded by the government as a precondition for peace...
...Thus, unless this week's developments lead to a lasting truce, the worst is perhaps still to come. In the countryside, the fighting has disrupted the planting season, and without a harvest in early 1994, says World Food Program spokeswoman Mercedes Sayagues, deprivation could envelop all of Angola. Even Luanda, the capital, has not gone untouched. On its northern outskirts 10,000 refugees have pitched camp, and in Josina Machel hospital, the country's largest, scores of amputees lie in unlighted corridors...
...gaze, one reason may be, or so relief workers believe, that with the cold war over, Angola no longer has strategic value. Another is that much of the country's misery is confined to small pockets of inaccessible territory. One such pocket is Malanje, 330 km east of Luanda and one of the largest provincial capitals. Despite a population of 250,000, swollen by the arrival of 50,000 refugees during the past year, it remains a ghost town. At a government health office, 100 children, mostly orphans, beg for meals. In a center run by nuns, men scuffle violently...