REPEAL OF ANGOLA AID BAN HIT BY HEAVY OPPOSITION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201210003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 2, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
c,N FA .ft 2 April 1981
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who , showed: no great enthusiasm _for . _ -. -.
repeating the amendments indicated possible without ' Angolan +cooperation,
the admimstrat ion ay have serious and that Angolas willingness to co
s operates- with. Western posers that are,
trouble achieving%one of its first ob
jectivea on Afnrn policy , 5a inyolvel with the Namibian' negoti
AngolaMrepiesents a . delicate . chat ationa would end ither amendment is L
lenge to {the adiiiinistration;' which "is repealed
t~e;,members; mchidmg" Republicans nations on Namibia's independent
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Clark, -
;witnesses ;t
along, with. thee comments of commit :` an other,
warn -
ed. that .no' settlement in 'n
committee~on?Africa, said that such a the United, States would, try.to help
repeal would+ seriously? damage:-'U.
S bring about a peaceful'settlement be-
interests tlirougliqut.black. Africa?:and tween the rival factions in the coon
"play`di ectly-into the hands' of the
Soviet Union and Cuba, supporters of
the Marxist=government of Angola. Angola contends..tl e Cuban troops
tt, , . ? ara nara4dar~i. fn nrnfor?f if frn - ro; 7Q "
e
s
, a orces, e~
(D-Mass, chauman-;of.''a House sub Cuban ::troops, suggesting .that then
,amendment;' Rep ;:Howard E .Wolpe first " et d f th
t
d f #h
Ithe proposed repeal of the Clark president. took another approach; He
said 'the An olan government should
}a m a j o r o c o m p a n y end with : The Washington Post, the
In . the second day of hearing on
y. -thein~.[Savimbis,forcesJ with weap
encompassed,'both Liberal :Democratic oris," Reagan said. .;r
blouse members and a spokesman, for However in an interview last week
to repeal the. prohibition' against overt arming Savimbi a..poli cy:? then and
orcovert ~ US ? aid to rebel forces in now- prohibited : by the Clark amend
Angola ram into strong opposition yes :. ent.T-Well, ,frankly; I. would -'provide
terda front. an tudiltel alliance that ,
~F.; ..., . ? rseagan :r > rien , campalgriiuig :tor the
;The?:.Reagan. administration's plan : presidency; showed rio`hesitancv about
B_v dward' lalsh In an interview last i~ Iay, President
by otherHouse tllemocrats by former Uy_ 111C W1114C-1Uie(1 9uver1u11en, 01
'. attitude` o&Ihi company apd, gthers tion, but r only -after Namibia, `which.
that.-have:-maioe'.investments iri.;An l,nr~lara Ancn1a- nn. f,'. .-.;,,fl ,,`
now `would have an extremely ?neg ``tilt" y;this :tadministratiorr away
ative effect,'botlr iii. Angola and else from the policies of the Carter` admin
where in Africa."' Istration and toward South Africa
He said -this was Iris "personal Clark told the subcommittee he fa
view, but. it also dearly reflected the yors .eventual ,repeal of the prohibi-.`
repeated eventually;, but that'to doso fear they signal :thee b bgirining of
ziloration and? Production Co a sub the Clark="amendment is -among a
sidiarjr of Gulf OiL _: ' ' "' number-of:' developments that have 0'
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vut Hill president of-Gulf Oil Ex Tneadministration's'effort to repeal
:,goia ana naves&rowna me government;.-gained'_.independence'.a (it ~s ;now : a "
of the west>Afncan country'to be,` in South African-protecto'rate} and.'after''
Hill's words, ~"businesshke and non _the United States has granted dipIo
ideplogical; despite;its Marxist philos matic-recognition'. to" the government
ophyy?`
still evolving -au overall Afiiranpolicy Savimbi,is scheduled 0 visit,Wash
case for"sup
but .which has vowed to counter So- i"ton soon to press, his
viet, ai`id CubaA,.6-x ansionism,_iii Af r port. State Department `officials .yes -
rica:and''elsewhere:~Angola now hosts = teixlay? confirmed; that' Savimbi met`'
an estrmafec)~,U8,OO Cubant;troops,,, recently in Morocco with.' i American
who are helping protect :tlie govern A official 'later identified, by? sources as
ment,against rebel forces led by anti Lannon Walker, `acting assistant sec
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