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(Archived document, may contain errors) 6/29/88 207 ANGOLA'S FREEDOM FIGHTERS: WHY THEY MERIT U.S. AID A s Jonas Savimbi, President of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), visits Washington this week for the first time since th e United States resumed U.S. military assistance to his freedom fighters two years ago, events are moving on several fronts that will affect the future of his struggle:

(Archived document, may contain errors) 633 i I A February 12 1988 IN SOUTHERN AF'RICA, THE STATE DEPARTMENT BETS. AGAINST .THE REAGAN DOCTRINE INTRODUCTION Africa has been the key testing ground in the struggle between the Rea gan Doctrine's support for resistance forces fighting Soviet-backed communist regimes and the Brezhnev Doctrine's insistence on the irreversibility of communist gains.

By Steve Cottrell | Special to The Union Monday will mark the 125th anniversary of the murder of Nevada County Sheriff David Fulton Douglass, a former Wells Fargo shotgun messenger appointed sheriff following the murder of Sheriff William Pascoe in 1893. And if ever there was a local homicide case without full closure, it is the death of 38-year-old Sheriff Douglass. In 1896, three years after Douglass took office, there were several roadside holdups locally and the two suspected highwaymen wer...