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While diplomats tinker with timetables for troop withdrawal, Angola bleeds. Negotiators from Cuba, Angola and South Africa are inching toward a detailed accord to send Cuba's 50,000 soldiers home and institute long-promised independence for Namibia. But an agreement on the terms, expected next week in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville, will bring no peace to Angola, whose people have known nothing but war for 27 years. The departing foreigners will leave behind a land glutted with weapons and a Marxist government still at war with the 60,000 homegrown rebels known as UNITA...
...regional peace accord for southern Africa, which was mediated by the U.S., is expected to require the Cubans to depart within 24 months, possibly starting with a partial pullback behind the 13th parallel. During that time, South Africa will gradually remove its troops from Namibia and permit implementation of the ten-year-old U.N. Resolution 435 calling for the territory's independence. The accord is expected to be signed by the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba at a ceremony in Brazzaville. Though a hopeful start, the accord leaves Angola's underlying dispute unresolved: the tribal conflict that pits some...
...August, South Africa, Angola and Cuba agreed to a cease-fire in Angola and Namibia. Though their talks have been mediated by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, the tentative peace plan calls for implementation of U.N. Resolution 435, with the world body supervising elections that would lead to Namibian independence...
According to Alastair Teeling-Smith, 26, former national secretary of the End Conscription Campaign, potential draftees accepted the idea of fighting guerrillas in Namibia, "but now they are faced with the prospect of fighting in the townships where their maids and gardeners live, and for many it has become a personal and emotional issue...
Even so, some diplomats are skeptical that Pretoria will honor its commitment to leave Namibia, which it has administered for 73 years. More than once during the past seven years, the South Africans have dashed Crocker's hopes for peace. Perhaps to show its good faith, South Africa has invited U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to visit Pretoria as soon as possible to discuss independence for Namibia...