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To: Marantz who wrote (7392)	12/7/1997 4:54:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 9164

Marantz, Albright heads to Africa..... Albright Aims to Reassert US Africa Interests 03:38 p.m Dec 07, 1997 Eastern By Patrick Worsnip PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sets off Monday on a seven-nation African tour to assert American interests in a continent often neglected by Washington. Albright is making her week-long trip after less than a year in office. Her predecessor, Warren Christopher, paid his one visit to sub-Saharan Africa just before the end of his four-year tenure, in October 1996. Under present plans, Albright's route will take her to Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Some of these, like South Africa and Ethiopia, whose capital Addis Ababa hosts the Organization of African Unity headquarters where Albright will deliver a major policy speech, are almost obligatory stops. But in characteristic fashion, she is also homing in on the conflict-torn belt of central African countries -- Rwanda, Congo and Angola -- whose convulsions led in May to the overthrow of President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Congo). U.S. officials identified three aims for her trip: to advance U.S. interests in the Great Lakes area, establish ties with a new generation of African leaders and reach out directly to ordinary Africans in meet-the-people events. A key stop will be mineral-rich Congo, relations with which have so far been dominated by a dispute over a U.N. inquiry into alleged killings by President Laurent Kabila's troops -- at the expense, some diplomats feel, of other U.S. concerns. There as in Rwanda, still reeling from the 1994 massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists, Albright will attempt to combine a firm line on human rights with understanding for local conditions. U.S. officials say she will also confront the painful question of what the United States and other Western countries might have done -- but did not do -- to prevent the Rwanda genocide and subsequent human rights abuses. ''I think there's more willingness now to look at this concept of shared responsibility that the African leaders have been so adamant about,'' one senior official said. ''We are searching for ways in advance of the secretary's trip for her to make an appropriate statement of that directly to the leaders that she will meet and also publicly.'' In Luanda, Albright will also broach with President Eduardo dos Santos U.S. concerns over the role in October of Angolan forces in helping former President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville overthrow his successor Pascal Lissouba. ''We are dismayed by Angola's role in the region, its feeling that it can cross borders with impunity to advance its regional agenda,'' the U.S. official said. Controversy could follow Albright even to South Africa. Despite the huge respect President Nelson Mandela enjoys in Washington, he upset U.S. leaders recently by visiting Libya, which the United States considers a sponsor of terrorism. In the past year, the U.S. administration has attempted to raise Africa up its foreign policy agenda both through sponsoring an African peacekeeping capacity to head off future Rwandas and by boosting trade and investment. U.S. special forces have been training peacekeepers in Malawi, Senegal and Uganda, but U.S. officials admit the ''Africa Crisis Response Initiative'' has been scaled back after criticisms of insufficient African control over it. U.S. President Bill Clinton, who will visit Africa next year, promoted an Africa trade initiative at this year's Group of Seven summit in Denver and the U.S. Congress is working on a bill to lower tariffs for reform-minded African states. Albright's tour will not be confined to seeing government leaders and includes meetings with grass roots groups and trips outside of capitals. One highlight will be a visit to a center in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu for children who have escaped from kidnap by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army which is trying to oust the Ugandan government with what Kampala says is Sudanese backing. Albright is launching her tour from Europe, where she met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Geneva in a bid to restart stalled Middle East peace talks.

To: Marantz who wrote (7392)	12/8/1997 8:11:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 9164

Marantz: First sorry for the delay. I had a small catastrophe and in the process I lost all my E-mail files and addresses. It took me all day to try and salvage what I could. I think the time to buying again is approaching, but I do not have all the ducks yet in a row. By the way, if anyone on this thread was expecting an e-mail from me, it is a good idea to send me a feeler, so I can reestablish my e-mail addresses. That applies to few here, I hope they know. Sorry for spreading my troubles over this august thread. Zeev