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...ANGOLA. The U.N. is blamed for having failed to insist on the disarmament of the UNITA rebel movement in Angola before U.N.-organized elections were held last September to end that country's 16-year civil war. As a result, UNITA head Jonas Savimbi reacted to his first-round election loss to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos by renewing the fighting...
...these reconciliations remained elusive right to the end, if indeed there is a peaceful end. Piqued at losing the vote to the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), erstwhile rebel Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), claimed that the MPLA rigged the result and only reluctantly withdrew his threat to take his troops out of the newly unified Angolan army, a move that would have put the country back on the brink of civil war. In Mozambique the immediate problem is to get the message of peace...
...usual eclectic mix of talent. There are scholars, like historians Suzanne Lebsock of Rutgers and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich of the University of New Hampshire. There are creative artists, among them choreographer Twyla Tharp. There are social activists, including Janet Benshoof, a campaigner for women's reproductive rights, and Unita Blackwell, a ^ small-town mayor and civil rights advocate. Oh, and there are some males, like Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell. The winners get from $150,000 to $375,000 over five years (younger recipients get less money) to spend as they wish...
...June 30 deadline for a complete withdrawal. The evacuation of nearly 2,000 Cuban soldiers added a grace note to this week's scheduled signing in Lisbon of a peace treaty between Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Jonas Savimbi, leader of the U.S.-backed rebel group UNITA. The pact paves the way for the establishment of a multiparty democracy in the formerly Marxist state and elections...
...estimated 200,000 lives. The agreement is expected to be signed in Lisbon as early as February, when a date for ending the war will be set. It also calls for the introduction of a new constitution supporting multiparty democracy and the integration of the Angolan army and UNITA into a single, nonideological force...