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...because of economic mismanagement and poor harvests. Last week Hanoi took a step that may not only lighten the burden on a desperately ailing economy but also make Viet Nam less of a pariah in Southeast Asia. The government announced that by the end of the year it would withdraw 50,000 Vietnamese troops from neighboring Kampuchea as part of a total, phased pullout of 120,000 troops...
Investigators were amazed at how far the scheme proceeded before being discovered. If the gang had settled for smaller amounts or picked accounts that were less active, the crime might have gone undetected long enough for the culprits to withdraw the money from the Viennese banks. Says an investigator connected with the case: "They came a lot closer than the banks want to acknowledge...
...pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says a senior U.S. commander, "make our job of deterrence more difficult and make Congress less willing to vote funds...
...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 to remove their soldiers from Angola as well, and to abide by the U.N. resolution that would give independence to Angola's neighbor Namibia, which is occupied...
...Soviet experts believe that a fundamental or far-reaching power struggle is under way. Peter Danylow, an analyst of East-West affairs in Bonn, argues that a basic policy consensus must exist. The reason: it would otherwise be hard to imagine the Soviet leadership approving the agreement to withdraw forces from Afghanistan...