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...Third Truce. Unlike Portugal's other former territories-Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, the Cape Verde Islands, Sào Tomé and Príncipe-the transfer of power in Angola has been complicated by the fact that there are three rival liberation groups. To patch up their differences, Agostinho Neto, 52, head of the Moscow-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), Holden Roberto, 50, leader of the Peking-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), and Jonas Savimbi, 40, head of the moderate National Union for Total Independence of Angola (U.N.I.T.A.), met in Kenya...
...inspired Rabin to resist Washington's pressure is his knowledge that although Sadat wants the passes, he is not anxious to fight for them at this point, particularly since the Egyptian economy is in serious disarray. Until now, Sadat's offers-a three-year truce agreement and demilitarization of the passes with some sort of third-party supervision, perhaps by U.S. electronic gear-have not been enough. Jerusalem wants other concessions, such as a relaxation on Egypt's part of the Arab trade boycott against Israel or an end to anti-Israel propaganda. As a result, Israeli...
...Division is no longer assigned to guard an extended sector of the 150-mile-long DMZ, as it was until 1971 Still, its location near the oft-used mountain passes at the western edge of the truce line means that its units would be engulfed by the fighting almost immediately if North Korea ever invaded in strength. Moreover, the 2nd Division is counted on to provide a strategic reserve for I Corps Group-a 175,000-man force that includes twelve ROK (Republic of Korea) divisions as well...
...from isolation, primitive facilities (hot baths once a week) and sheer boredom. It is at these bleak forward outposts that the U.S. would suffer its first casualties if North Korea were ever to launch a major attack. Thus, for the G.l.s based there, the boredom of a seemingly interminable truce may well be a blessing...
...Seoul. The fact is that Kim has never accepted the existence of an independent, non-Communist South. In the past couple of years, he has not only launched repeated terrorist attacks across the border, but has also built a series of airstrips and naval ports close to the truce line. Recently he shifted two fully armored divisions to positions close to the DMZ. "There has been a change up North," notes Professor Kim Chum Kon, director of the Institute of Security and International Affairs in Seoul. A well-known critic of the Park government, Kim warns that the North...