Word: namibia
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...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, the southwest African territory it had administered since 1914, in return for a Cuban promise to pull its 50,000 soldiers out of Angola...
...diplomatic labors, Soviet tanks and troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan and are being partially withdrawn from Eastern Europe. A whole class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they are making diplomatic inroads in the Middle East and China. "Shevardnadze has mastered the foreign policy agenda," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute of Soviet Affairs. "He is of a similar creative mind as Gorbachev, not simply his tool...
...fitful peace descended last week on Namibia as the longtime South African colony struggled to carry out its United Nations-supervised transition toward independence. There were only a few clashes between guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization and local and South African security forces; the fighting had killed 293 during the first three weeks of the transition. Some 1,000 SWAPO forces remained in Namibia rather than returning to bases more than 100 miles north, beyond the border in Angola...
Commission members monitoring the border situation formally declared SWAPO's presence in Namibia a violation of the peace accord and instructed the rebels to return to Angola. The U.N. belatedly began deploying, but at week's end only a handful of rebels had surrendered, apparently because assembly points were also manned by Namibian security forces. Some chose instead to make their own way over the border...
From Cuba to Poland to Viet Nam, Moscow is scaling back its costly involvement in cold war commitments. -- Invading guerrillas, an angry South Africa and ineffectual U.N. peacekeepers threaten Namibia's future. -- After 14 years of civil war, is Lebanon at the point of no return? -- In dealing with Israel, the U.S. tries a step-by-step approach...