The Security Council, in a unanimous vote Wednesday, authorized more than 7,000 troops, civilians and police monitors to go to the southern African country in stages, leaving itself the power to call off the mission at strategic intervals if a cease-fire signed between the rebel UNITA movement and government forces last November fell apart.
U.S. ambassador Madeleine Albright said in particular that UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, who has emerged after a two-year absence from public life and is currently holding a congress in the Angolan town of Bailundo, was casting doubt on the truce.
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