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To: VAUGHN who wrote (1835)	7/27/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Leo Raftis	Respond to of 7235

cannot be found on my server regards leo

To: VAUGHN who wrote (1835)	7/27/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Andrew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7235

Hello everyone. I've just read over all the recent posts and may be able to help clarify some things. At the AGM CJ said they were using 2.25 C/T as a very conservative figure for the M1 pipe and that although they felt when mined the carot/ton would be much higher they were using this figure. If I recall correctly a question was also raised as to what security measures were being taken in Angola. I believe CJ said they would be working together with other companies working in the area if they had to hire security. Andy

To: VAUGHN who wrote (1835)	7/28/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: PHILLIP FLOTOW	Respond to of 7235

To all, New from Angola & South Africa: UN's Lukewarm Response to Angola Crisis [Editorial] July 28, 1998 Johannesburg - There is a disturbing inconsistency in the way in which the United Nations has gone about enforcing peace and stability around the world. It is almost as if varying rules and standards are reserved for different regions. The international effort, or more appropriately the lack of it, in the instance of Angola, stands out as a case in point. One needs only to compare the UN's commitment to enforcing its resolutions against Libya and Iraq on the one hand, and its lukewarm response to Angola on the other, to appreciate this fact. In each of these instances, UN resolutions prescribe strict embargoes, ostensibly to promote global peace and stability. In the case of Iraq and Libya, these restrictions are enforced without reservation. A substantial United States military presence in the Gulf and Mediterranean ensures that any violation of the UN resolutions would be severely punished. The UN embargo, directed against Jonas Savimbi's Unita forces in Angola, while well-intended, has been regularly flouted with impunity. The UN and more notably the United States have done little to punish these frequent violations. There is little doubt this has encouraged Unita's latest offensive, now in its fourth month, against the Angolan people. South Africa is as culpable as the rest of the UN in this instance. A sizeable number of sanctions-busting flights headed for Unita territory have taken off from South African soil. We must therefore accept part of the responsibility for the massacre of 200 Angolan civilians reported last week. This must underline the need for South Africa and the continent as a whole to bring pressure to bear on the UN and demand it shows as much commitment to resolutions against Unita as it does in enforcing embargoes against Iraq. Without this minimal intervention, Angola's slide into another civil war will be inevitable. Africa's responsibility is to prevent this tragic eventuality. It is only right that FW de Klerk be afforded an opportunity to respond to allegations suggesting he knew about illegal police activity during his term as president. However, De Klerk has more than just the apparent contradictions between his testimony and that of his police commissioner, Johan van der Merwe, to respond to. In a statement clarifying his TRC testimony, De Klerk has reportedly said his denials to the commission related to his complicity in illegal actions, not his knowledge of them. Implied in this response is the suggestion that he knew of illegal police actions. Yet when confronted, during the early 1990s, with claims of third force activity, he responded rather simply by saying, bring the evidence and "I will act". On the basis of evidence before the TRC, Van der Merwe seemed to have done exactly that. Yet De Klerk failed to act. The question is: Why? *** Angola deploys 18 000 troops as war clouds gather July 28, 1998 Luanda - Western diplomats said yesterday that the Angolan government had deployed 30 battalions of about 18 000 troops in towns under its control while rebel movement Unita was said to have intensified attacks on civilian targets. "Both sides are preparing for war. They are all stock-piling, they are fortifying positions and they are recruiting en masse," a Pretoria- based diplomat said. "In the countryside war has virtually broken out but it goes unreported." The fear that Angola is about to return to full-scale war has also been fuelled by a huge conscription campaign in government towns across the country. Diplomats said Unita, led by Jonas Savimbi, was conscripting men and women and its army had been reinforced by members of defeated government armies from the former Zaire, Rwanda and Congo Republic. Meanwhile, Sapa-AFP reports that former Unita rebels have taken two northern towns while three other attacks carried out in diamond regions killed 16 civilians, soldiers and police, according to government radio reports yesterday. Unita took control of Kimbele and Makokola in Uije province after fighting with police. It also attacked Koxe in the northern Bengo province, a day after deadly road ambushes in the diamond regions of Lunda-Norte and Lunda-Sul. Pule Molebeledi reports that Defence Minister Joe Modise has issued a stern warning to SA arms smugglers suspected of aiding the warring parties in the Angolan conflict, saying they stood to have their property confiscated or to serve lengthy prison sentences. Modise said in Pretoria yesterday there were rumours that some South Africans were smuggling arms to Angola. He reminded smugglers that Parliament had recently passed a law, the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act, prohibiting any mercenary activity by South Africans. SA Police Service detective spokesman Dir Reg Crewe said the service was not aware of any local citizens smuggling guns to Angola. However, government observers said there were a number of rogue elements who had resumed their arms dealing connections with Angola. These elements had apparently built up a good network with Unita during the apartheid years. Last night it was reported from Washington that United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan was sending a senior envoy to Angola with a strong message for both Unita and the government. Ibrahim Brahimi, an Algerian diplomat and experienced UN trouble- shooter, was expected to leave New York late yesterday in a bid to shore up the faltering peace process in Angola, sources said. Modise said he was hoping that a full-scale war would not break out. SA would do its best to assist the parties involved resolve the conflict peacefully. Modise, who expressed concern that the war would exacerbate the refugee problem experienced by SA, said there were about 2-million refugees in the country. PHIL