But they insisted that Angola was not trying to sabotage the Cuban withdrawal agreement.

"This is a withdrawal agreement and not a redeployment agreement," he said, referring to the September accord.

But India did delay the beginning of the last stage of the operation until the following week, while the latest withdrawal agreement was being negotiated.

U.N. mediators who have helped shape the withdrawal agreement might be go-betweens in shaping an interim coalition.

The province of Alberta is also looking into cooperative withdrawal agreements between oil sands operators.

A provision making the United States a guarantor of the withdrawal agreement would be dropped.

Without warning, the Kabul Communist regime demanded a change in the withdrawal agreement.

But a formal withdrawal agreement is to be signed this week so the summit meeting needn't be bothered with Afghanistan.

The withdrawal agreements should remove not just Soviet troops but the small army of "experts."

The Soviet Union initially wanted to sign a withdrawal agreement by March 15.