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...student is suspected of cheating and the Administrative Board finds him guilty, and he confesses his guilt, he is required to withdraw from the University for a year," John Marquard, senior tutor of Dudley House, said yesterday...
...tente. The officials refused to say what, if anything, Kissinger extracted from the Soviet leader on the Angola situation. Perhaps significantly, however, they said that the U.S. will watch closely in the coming weeks to see if the Soviet leaders exert pressure on Fidel Castro's Cuba to withdraw any of its 10,000 troops, which have helped the M.P.L.A. gain the upper hand against two U.S.-backed factions (see THE WORLD...
...summit's host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling...
...Russians off their back." In a recent interview with Paris' Le Monde, Neto declared that he does not want Angola to become a Russian satellite "just because the Soviet Union supplies us with weapons." One helpful first step would be to persuade the South Africans to withdraw their forces from the conflict. Last week there were renewed efforts by the U.S., Britain and Zambia to do just that. Once the Russians' propaganda card has been removed, opinion in the O.A.U. might be mobilized to support the withdrawal of all foreign forces-including the Russians and the Cubans...
Even apart from the collapse of the government, it was a week of shocks for Italians. On the day that Socialist Leader De Martino announced his party's decision to withdraw support for the government, the New York Times and the Washington Post simultaneously printed the embarrassing story that the CIA had been authorized to give $6 million in secret aid to non-Communist Italian parties-most of it, apparently, to the ruling Christian Democrats. Then, the day after Premier Moro rode to the Palazzo del Quirinale to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone, millions of workers walked...