Word: angola
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...unprecedented warmth between the two countries. Gone are the days when high-level U.S. and Soviet officials met twice a year; last week's visit in Houston was the 23rd meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Shevardnadze, who managed in their whirlwind consultations to cover everything from Angola and Afghanistan to arms control and the Persian Gulf crisis. During the final Rose Garden ceremony on an unseasonably warm December afternoon, President Bush announced that he would travel to Moscow in mid-February for a fourth summit with Gorbachev, with the hope of signing a START treaty reducing...
...UNITED NATIONS. The organization, long derided as tangential at best, was quietly making a comeback by mediating settlements in such trouble spots as Namibia and Angola. In the gulf crisis it has functioned at long last as its creators hoped it would 45 years ago, focusing world condemnation on an aggressor, authorizing a global embargo and even voting to permit the use of force to back up that squeeze. The Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long...
...cash. Bush told his press conference, "I have some big problems" with extending aid at this time. One, he said, is that "a great percentage" of Soviet gross national product is still going into military spending. Also, Moscow has continued to extend aid to anti-American regimes in Afghanistan, Angola and, worst of all, Cuba. Now that Bush has in effect agreed that new taxes are necessary to reduce the budget deficit, opponents could shout that Americans are being taxed indirectly to finance the building of Soviet missiles or even to prop up Fidel Castro...
...their grasp of the world. "I used to hear about countries on television and think they were over there somewhere. I hadn't heard of half of them," admits Leila Nesson. "Now I can figure out better what's going on in the world. I'll always know that Angola is in Africa and not just over there somewhere." Says Eleanor Pries, as she examines her final map: "We saw our originals and we just laughed...
Peter Shapiro '74, who covered the Angola divestiture debate for The Crimson in 1972, says that these early demonstrations "were clearly a precedent for the divestment movement, this came well before the other issues...