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...Angolan resistance.) The Angolan government said the action violated a 1984 accord under which South Africa agreed to withdraw its forces from southern Angola in exchange for Angola's promise to prohibit SWAPO forces from operating there. The accusation followed the disclosure that South Africa had violated a similar pact with Mozambique by supplying antigovernment guerrillas in that country with radios and weapons. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha admitted to "technical violations" of the accord, but claimed that they had been committed in hopes of promoting peace talks between the rebels and the Mozambican government...
...first treaty produced by the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), which severely limited the antiballistic- missile defenses of both sides. When Reagan unveiled Star Wars in 1983, he was challenging the assumption that the human race is condemned to rely for its survival on a suicide pact between two hostile states. He envisioned a comprehensive, impregnable system of exotic, space-based missile killers that would, in his phrase, render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." Some advocates of the program, however, would settle for a more modest shield designed to protect American missile sites...
During SALT I, Soviet negotiators not only acknowledged the verification problem but were the ones who actively resisted restrictions on research. When the Defense Minister at the time, Andrei Grechko, testified on behalf of Soviet ratification of the ABM treaty in 1972, he stressed, approvingly, that the pact "imposes no limitations on the performance of research and experimental work aimed at resolving the problem of defending the country against nuclear missile attack...
...England's No. 1 lender, will now acquire Colonial Bancorp of Waterbury, Conn. (assets $1.5 billion), and RIHT Financial Corp. (assets $2.3 billion) of Providence for about $200 million. Said a disappointed Hans Angermueller, vice chairman of Citicorp (assets $150.1 billion), which led the legal fight against the regional pact: "Banking is the only industry that still enjoys local protection...
...technical documents. As a result, declares Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, they have cut the U.S. technological lead from ten years to as little as three. For the U.S. and its NATO allies, who rely on brains to beat brawn, on "smart weapons" to counter the larger Warsaw Pact forces, the high-tech drain is a factor of consequence in the precarious balance of power...