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...anything, Angola's civil war is getting hotter. With Cuban aid, Angolan forces last week pushed an offensive into the heartland of Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribesmen. The troops captured three towns in central Angola, including Savimbi's birthplace of Munhango...
Those levers furnish Pretoria with plenty of coercive power when it chooses to exercise it. But the catalyst for this current burst of public summitry is the prospective agreement for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and finally the granting of independence to Namibia, now near consummation in Brazzaville. Many states in the area are just as eager as South Africa to speed the departure of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola as a prelude to ending the 13-year Angolan civil war between the Marxist government and South African-backed UNITA rebels. The attraction of sharing credit...
...John Kennedy said back in the Cuban missile crisis when a U.S. pilot strayed toward the Soviet Union, there is always one guy who doesn't get the word. Actually, there seem to be two: George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Bush started his campaign claiming, rightly, that having power and being willing to use it had helped bring the peace. Then he proceeded, wrongly, to rattle our rockets. Dukakis denied, rightly, that military hardware is the sole basis of influence but then, wrongly, jumped in the M1 tank to match Bush. The world waits -- yearns -- for a new political chapter...
...diplomatic flap: the Foreign Office quickly announced the expulsion of Medina Perez and the Cuban Ambassador, Oscar Fernandez Mell. Officials said those fired on were performing routine surveillance...
...thriller: intelligence sources let on that the group outside the apartment had included Florentino Aspillaga, a Cuban intelligence agent who defected to the U.S. last year. In London a Cuban embassy spokesman charged that the CIA and Britain's MI5 were pressuring Medina Perez to defect and that he had opened fire to keep from being kidnaped. MI5 sources said Medina Perez was a Cuban intelligence agent who had convinced the British he was ready to defect. Had he been lying so he could set up Aspillaga for assassination? Or had he panicked? Calling Le Carre...