Word: savimbi
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...country estate, a marble-studded palace set amid flowers and fountains in northern Zaire, is sometimes called "Versailles-in- the-Jungle." The nickname, a reminder of the treaty that ended World War I, seemed especially apt last week as Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, the main antagonists in a 14-year-old civil war, met there for a handshake that might lead to a formal peace agreement...
...years Dos Santos had denounced Savimbi as a traitor for accepting covert military aid from the U.S. and South Africa, and insisted he could make peace with Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), but never with its leader. The dislike was mutual. Savimbi never ceased deriding "Dos Santos and his gang" as puppets for introducing "Russian- Cuban imperialism" into Angola...
...much for theory. In reality, the quota system has been ineffective in controlling the trade. Up to 90% of the tusks that enter the marketplace have been taken illegally by poachers, and smugglers have little trouble getting the ivory out of Africa. Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has reportedly financed his insurrection with ivory taken from more than 100,000 elephants. Some countries seem to be conduits for the illegal trade. With roughly 4,500 elephants of its own, Somalia has still managed to export tusks from an estimated 13,800 elephants in the past three years, evidence that...
Another obstacle to peace may be Jonas Savimbi's forces. Since 1975, Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), with U.S. and South African backing, has been waging guerrilla actions against the Marxist MPLA Angolan government. Savimbi has vowed that there will be no peace in Angola until he and his political movement become a recognized part of the MPLA government. "If not," warned UNITA spokesman Alcides Sakala, "we will intensify our struggle, we will continue...
...drive has hardly daunted UNITA. Thanks to years of support from South African troops, bases in neighboring states and U.S. military aid, including potent Stinger antiaircraft missiles, Savimbi's men seem as determined as ever. They roam freely in 16 of Angola's 19 provinces and constantly launch deadly assaults on government soldiers. UNITA, Savimbi claims, has enough arms and money to go on fighting for two more years...