Word: namibia
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...mediated by Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, on Governors Island in New York harbor, the three nations announced they had signed a document outlining the "principles" under which Cuban and South African troops would be withdrawn from Angola and under which the territory of Namibia, which South Africa controls in defiance of United Nations resolutions, would gain its independence...
...Angola to withdraw Cuba's estimated 40,000 troops from Angola over a four-year period. In exchange, Cuba and Angola want the South Africans to remove their soldiers from Angola as well, and to abide by the U.N. resolution that would give independence to Angola's neighbor Namibia, which is occupied by South Africa...
...Reagan stated, in South Africa you're talking about a country, yes, we disagree, and find repugnant some of the practices of their government, but they're not seeking to impose their government on other countries." Perhaps the President is ignorant of the eight-year-old occupation of Namibia by 100,000 South African troops. The occupation has been condemned by both the United Nations Security Council and the International Court of Justice...
Kraus said the first section of the bill, which the Senate committee rejected, included strict definitions of what constitutes business in South Africa and Namibia. Without that section, such a law would be less enforceable as it must rely on interpretations by state enforcement agencies to define business in South Africa...
Joseph Longo, 33, a civilian American pilot, was turned over to a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Angola last week after he spent nearly ten weeks in captivity. Longo's Beechcraft Bonanza was forced down by an Angolan jet fighter last April over Namibia, where the plane was scheduled to be delivered. "The treatment got better as time went on," Longo said of his detention. When he arrived in the U.S., however, Longo cited "bad food, lice and lizards" as hardships that he endured...