dos Santos, José Eduardo (zh
zĕ` ēthwär`d ds säN`tz), 1942–, president of Angola (1979–). Educated in the USSR as an engineer, he was foreign minister in the first government of independent Angola, succeeding Neto Neto, Agostinho (əgshtēn`y
..... Click the link for more information. as president in 1979. In 1991, he abandoned Marxism and negotiated an end to the civil war with the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The peace ended when dos Santos outpolled UNITA candidate Jonas Savimbi Savimbi, Jonas (sävĭm`bē), 1934–2002, Angolan rebel leader.
..... Click the link for more information. for the presidency, and UNITA forces resumed fighting (1992). A second peace effort in 1994 also ended in renewed fighting, in 1998.
zĕ` ēthwär`d ds säN`tz), 1942–, president of Angola (1979–). Educated in the USSR as an engineer, he was foreign minister in the first government of independent Angola, succeeding Neto Neto, Agostinho (əgshtēn`y..... Click the link for more information. as president in 1979. In 1991, he abandoned Marxism and negotiated an end to the civil war with the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The peace ended when dos Santos outpolled UNITA candidate Jonas Savimbi Savimbi, Jonas (sävĭm`bē), 1934–2002, Angolan rebel leader.
..... Click the link for more information. for the presidency, and UNITA forces resumed fighting (1992). A second peace effort in 1994 also ended in renewed fighting, in 1998.
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