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...negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict involving Angola, Cuba and South Africa. Last week the three countries jointly announced "a de facto cessation of hostilities" in the 13-year-old war and pledged to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Angola and neighboring Namibia. The impending agreement is not only a personal triumph for Crocker but also one of the most impressive examples of creative, consistent diplomacy in the Reagan...
...phased withdrawal of most of the estimated 50,000 South African troops from Namibia to be completed by Feb. 1, 1989, and the deployment of a 7,500- member U.N. peacekeeping force...
Just as crucial, perhaps, was South Africa's realization that its best interests lay in reaching a Namibia settlement while the Reagan Administration was still in office. At the same time, the Soviets started throwing their weight behind the peace process. Crocker has held half a dozen meetings with his Soviet counterparts since March to discuss the superpowers' role in the conflict and to ask Moscow to urge both the Angolans and the South Africans to be flexible...
...Founding Fathers." If Reagan's beau ideal of the swashbuckling American good guy is Oliver North, Bush seems to prefer Chester Crocker. He admires the low- key Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs for his seven-year quest (as yet unfulfilled) of a settlement in Angola and Namibia...
...Cuba agreed in principle last month to end the conflict in southwestern Africa, all sides agreed to conduct further talks in secrecy. Last week Pretoria broke that understanding by publicly offering to pull its 3,000 troops out of Angola by September and to grant independence to neighboring Namibia, which it now administers, by next June. South Africa demanded that Cuba also withdraw its estimated 50,000 troops from Angola by June. In response, Cuban Negotiator Carlos Aldana Escalante said it was "preposterous and unrealistic" for his country's soldiers to leave Angola within a year. But when the latest...