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<text id=91TT1185>
<title>
June 03, 1991: World Notes:Angola
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 03, 1991 Date Rape
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
ANGOLA
Military Leave
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<p> The effort to end Angola's 16-year-old civil war quickened
last week when Cuba removed its remaining troops, five weeks ahead
of a June 30 deadline for a complete withdrawal. The evacuation of
nearly 2,000 Cuban soldiers added a grace note to this week's
scheduled signing in Lisbon of a peace treaty between Angolan
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Jonas Savimbi, leader of
the U.S.-backed rebel group UNITA. The pact paves the way for
the establishment of a multiparty democracy in the formerly
Marxist state and elections in 1992.
</p>
<p> U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign
Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh are expected to be on hand to
congratulate Dos Santos and Savimbi--as well they might. Since
Angola won independence from Portugal in 1975, Moscow has spent
as much as $1 billion a year to prop up the regime, while the
U.S. has contributed up to $60 million annually to the rebels.
</p>
</body></article>
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