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- <text id=91TT0218>
- <title>
- Feb. 04, 1991: World Notes:Angola
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 04, 1991 Stalking Saddam
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 55
- World Notes
- ANGOLA
- A Green Light For Peace
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The push to end 15 years of savage civil war took a step
- forward last week as the Angolan government agreed in principle
- to a peace plan that includes a cease-fire with its longtime
- enemy, the U.S.-backed rebel group UNITA. The National Union
- for the Total Independence of Angola says it too is "in broad
- agreement" with the plan, which links the cease-fire to a
- political settlement between the rival factions.
- </p>
- <p> The proposal, hammered out in Lisbon by the U.S., the Soviet
- Union and Portugal, reflects a concerted effort by the
- superpowers to find a solution to the regional dispute, which
- has cost an estimated 200,000 lives. The agreement is expected
- to be signed in Lisbon as early as February, when a date for
- ending the war will be set. It also calls for the introduction
- of a new constitution supporting multiparty democracy and the
- integration of the Angolan army and UNITA into a single,
- nonideological force.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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