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...communists." Cohen replied, "That's the heart of the problem" and went on the explain that he had been commissioned by Dean Epps to deliver the following threat" if we participate in actions similar to the Weinberger protest at any time in the future, we will be asked to withdraw from the College. We asked if Big Brother planned a mass expulsion of the 600 + students who protested Weinberger, or were we two communists a test case in Epps' drive to crush free speech at Harvard, Cohen replied that there were a total of 10 students who Epps had lined...
Caked in grime, ragged in their new-grown beards, the South Africans had finally begun to withdraw. The last of some 2,000 soldiers were making off with booty ranging from Soviet-made guns to Russian-language maps. Some of their trucks were still decorated with Christmas tinsel. But the condition of the 30-mile-long column was hardly festive. At the village of Mupa, they had to put up a rickety bridge across a swollen river; farther south, they drove past a treasure trove of Soviet-made equipment, including recently developed AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers. After five weeks...
...direct confrontation with those of Marxist Angola, supported by some of the country's estimated 26,000 Cuban soldiers and advisers. After five years of tortuous U.N. negotiation, the Angolan-Namibian situation is still at a violent stalemate: Angola refuses to dismiss its Cuban troops until South Africa withdraws; South Africa refuses to withdraw until the Cubans are dismissed. Meanwhile, South Africa will doubtless continue assisting the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UMTA) in its attacks against the Angolan government...
...South Africans chose to suggest terms for a trial disengagement in Angola on the same day that they had, according to Angola, killed dozens of civilians in a bombing attack. Their offer was turned down. Several days later Angola replied with the equally wishful demand that South Africa immediately withdraw all its forces and unconditionally accept Namibian independence...
...Guards, do not seek the improvement of Nicaraguan society according to U.S. standards but control of that society itself. They will neither give their U.S. arms back to their donors or stop using them. The United States would be well advised to negotiate with the Nicaraguans and offer to withdraw support for the Contras provided the Sandinistas stop aiding Salvadoran guerrillas and reduce ties with the Cubans and Soviets. Recent moves by the Sandinistas such as scheduling elections, expelling 2000 Cuban advisers and granting greater freedom to the opposition signal a willingness on the part of the Nicaraguans to come...