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...week in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville, will bring no peace to Angola, whose people have known nothing but war for 27 years. The departing foreigners will leave behind a land glutted with weapons and a Marxist government still at war with the 60,000 homegrown rebels known as UNITA...
...signed by the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba at a ceremony in Brazzaville. Though a hopeful start, the accord leaves Angola's underlying dispute unresolved: the tribal conflict that pits some 310,000 fighters loyal to Marxist President Jose Eduardo dos Santos against Jonas Savimbi's tenacious UNITA guerrilla movement...
...Angola last week, however, some potentially explosive issues remained unresolved. For starters, the talks did not include representatives from either the Soviet-backed South West Africa People's Organization, which has an estimated 2,500 troops in Angola, or the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which is backed by the U.S. and South Africa and has an army of some 25,000 in Angola. UNITA insists that it will continue fighting...
...hurt, of course, that the winds of war had also begun to blow in his favor. Last summer the Angolan army launched a Cuban-backed offensive against UNITA strongholds in the southeast of the country. South African forces responded with a full-scale counterattack that drove the Angolans and Cubans back to the town of Cuito Cuanavale. Three months ago in southwest Angola, Cuban troops took up positions as close as ten miles from the Namibian border. Bogged down in an expensive and demoralizing military stalemate, all three governments have become increasingly receptive to a settlement that would...
After 13 years of fighting, the antagonists in Angola's stalemated civil war took a tentative step toward peace last week. In London representatives of the U.S. and South Africa, supporters of Angola's UNITA rebels, met for the first time with officials of the Marxist-oriented Angolan government and its Cuban allies. Presided over by Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, the talks focused on a proposal by Cuba and Angola to withdraw Cuba's estimated 40,000 troops from Angola over a four-year period. In exchange, Cuba and Angola want the South Africans...