Word: pretoria
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...withdraw its 40,000 troops. That was to be done in coordination with the phased departure of 50,000 Cuban troops backing the Marxist regime in Angola, which gives sanctuary to the militant exiles of the South West African People's Organization, whose guerrilla army has been battling Pretoria's rule since 1966. The U.S.-brokered agreement was signed last December under the auspices of the U.N., which took on responsibility for policing Namibia's transition with an international peacekeeping force (UNTAG...
South Africa's potential energy monopoly ought to be incentive for the U.S. increase the pressure for reform on the Pretoria government. Whether by democratic reform or violent revolution, South African Blacks are certain to eventually overthrow the apartheid regime. The last thing the U.S. needs is hostile relations with the people who could govern the fusion equivalent of Saudi Arabia...
...Radical Arms Troop, a singing group of six students who took part in the 1969 protests, drew cheers from the vocal audience for such lyrics as "ROTC, keeping all the people in slavery," and "It's the same bosses here as in Pretoria...Listen, Derek Bok, divest your racist stock...
Young men flinging stones at tanks. Streets blockaded by burning tires. Helmeted troops firing into crowds of rioters. Night after night, such images once gave television viewers around the world a chilling picture of South Africa's racial and political turmoil. But when Pretoria declared a state of emergency in June 1986 and imposed tough new press-censorship regulations, the scenes of violence suddenly disappeared. So, to a large extent, did television's interest in the story. As a result, there has been a significant drop in network coverage of South Africa...
...officials credit the Soviets for employing "cajolery and arm-twisting" that made the Cubans and Angolans more flexible, particularly during the crucial round of talks at which a withdrawal timetable was worked out. SWAPO welcomed the accord but expressed doubts about South African intentions. The only guarantee of Pretoria's keeping its word after signing the agreement in New York, said a SWAPO official, is the "vigilance of the Namibian people...