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...planes evidently got caught in crossfire between Morocco and | Polisario guerrillas, who have been battling for 13 years for ownership of the territory known as the Western Sahara. It seems likely that Polisario gunners fired at the planes, mistaking them for Moroccan aircraft...
...security." Those slogans are sure to figure in Gorbachev's address to the U.N. this week, which Soviet officials expected would reiterate the Soviet Union's commitment to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, help bring peace to Angola and Kampuchea, and support the U.N.'s efforts in the Western Sahara, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East...
...very well- qualified person and extremely intelligent man, who knew the job very well, a very quiet extremely self-effacing man. He spent the sort of wilderness years from 1982 to 1987, pretty bad years in the U.N., as the only negotiator on Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Western Sahara, Cyprus and a lot of other things, and he established a position of great respect with all the different antagonists in all these situations. When the international climate changed and the outburst of common sense began to take place, he was in a position to act very quickly...
Much as the black-ruled nations of Africa might detest it, they cannot ignore the fact that the pariah state of South Africa is the economic and military superpower south of the Sahara. This galling reality is the backdrop against which State President P.W. Botha is staging a new diplomatic offensive. In three weeks he has met publicly with three African heads of state and secretly, officials in Pretoria claim, with two others. Flying home from Zaire last week, Botha announced jubilantly, "We are going to other African countries as well, where we will be busy this year and next...
...CREATION by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). The quest for a hidden river in the Sahara unleashes a mythic adventure. Splendid surrealism from the author of Empire...