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...into Angola, General Constand Viljoen, commander of the South African defense forces, insisted that it had been mounted in response to increased "abductions, intimidation and sabotage" by SWAPO. That explanation failed to satisfy Washington, which called for an immediate pullback. After meeting in the White House with Samora M. Machel, the visiting leader of Mozambique, President Reagan also denounced South Africa's actions in that country. Viljoen eventually announced that his troops had disrupted SWAPO supply lines and would pull out of Angola over the weekend...
...keeping its part of the bargain. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha said that the Mozambican government and its prime adversary, the anti-Communist Mozambique National Resistance movement, have agreed to a South Africa-sponsored cease-fire proposal. The plan calls for the M.N.R. to recognize President Samora Machel's regime...
...African support for the M.N.R. is expected to end, the group is not likely to disband. Evo Fernandes, leader of the M.N.R.'s delegation to the cease-fire talks, declared that the rebels "will not accept the presence of South African troops on Mozambican territory." As for the Machel government, he added, "the war continues, and we may have to escalate our actions...
...force by both sides and forbidding the support of guerrilla groups hostile to either government, the accord may mark the end of nearly a decade of increasing enmity between the two neighboring countries, each of which has accused the other of encouraging attacks by insurgent groups. Moreover, as Machel and Botha shook hands, there were indications that after decades of ruinous skirmishing between white-ruled South Africa and black nations close by, winds of peace were sweeping through the rest of the region as well...
After months of groundwork, negotiations came to a head last November. Following a meeting with Machel in the Mozambique capital of Maputo, Crocker's deputy, Frank Wisner, flew to South Africa with a message for Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha: the time was ripe for bilateral talks with Mozambique. The discussions set in motion the exchange that led to last week's formal accord...