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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesANGOLAMilitary Leave
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- 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.
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- 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.
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