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...same token, Bush could send ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kabul, Luanda, Havana and Hanoi to engage the leaders there constructively rather than treating them like avatars of Moscowcentric world communism, a phenomenon that no longer exists. For the U.S. to stop & withholding or hedging recognition of those regimes would be a big step toward recognizing how much the world is changing...
Angola's civil war, a conflict that has devastated the country and taken the lives of an estimated 100,000 people, began when the Portuguese colonial government pulled out in 1975. The Marxist leadership in Luanda immediately accepted military and economic aid from the Soviet Union and troop support from Cuba; UNITA turned for help to the U.S. and South Africa. With neither side able to prevail in an increasingly costly and bloody contest, the first step toward conciliation was finally taken last December. After eight years of U.S.-brokered negotiations, South Africa agreed to grant independence to Namibia...
...Luanda last week Sergeant Vivian Hernandez Cabellero, a 19-year-old member of an antiaircraft battery, said goodbye to her companeros. She was part of the first contingent of Cuban soldiers to be withdrawn from Angola as part of a negotiated settlement to 13 years of fighting. In Kabul 500 Soviet soldiers, laden with equipment, lined up before military transport planes to fly home. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, and his deputy, Yuli Vorontsov, met separately with the Afghan regime and the leaders of the mujahedin to discuss what amounted to the terms of the U.S.S.R...
...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 African garrison. Officials in Luanda insisted that 26 South Africans and ten Angolans were killed...
...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...