REBELS OF 4 NATIONS FORM ANTILEFTIST FRONT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'Rebels of 4 Nations
Form Antileftist Front.
Groups' Meeting in Angola
Organized by U.S. Lobby
WASHINGTON POST
6 June 1985
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Jonas Savimbi, conference host in their country was "very serious,"
and leader of the National Union for according to Jack Wheeler, a con-
the Total Independence of Angola. ference organizer. But former
said the alliance's first goal is "to prime minister Son Sann, leader of .
make the people of the United the Khmer People's National Lib-
States understand the struggle" of , eration Front, sent a message of
the rebel groups. solidarity to the conference.
The alliance will have a "central, [A Portuguese radio report last
clearinghouse" in Washington, said week had said that Cuban and Mo-
Lewis Lehrman, a New York Re- , zambican resistance movements
publican who is chairman of the also would. be represented at the
Washington-based Citizens for conference. According to the report
by Radio Commercial, the organiz-
By Alfonso Chardy I America, the conservative lobbying ers plan a follow-up conference to
Kni1M-Ridder group that organized the confer- t be held in Washington in July.]
ence. He gave no further details. Although Savimbi was the sum-
JAMBA, Angola. -- June a s Gand Auerrilla leader from ,the But another Citizens for America mit's official host, the event was
worlds, Afggh hannist istan, Laos ngola fo ormed . ; the official said his organization may organized by Lehrman, who
Americ not organized of nference in a nist rebels during an lobby Congress for a package of brought Reagan's message. Lehr-
fir A
laweekend. conference
part of ca- Angola last a rebel - controlled man is a ~rsonarfriend of the pres-
eeke ! U.S. aid for the insurgent forces
In a communique issued Sunday, representatives of that formed the alliance and others ident and was an unsuccessful can-
the four groups pledged to "cooperate" in halting "So- that may join later. He also said that - didate for governor of New York in
viet colonialism," but stressed that their alliance will rebel delegates at. the conference 19822e organization he heads, Cit-
News involve exchanges of troops, arms or funds. had vowed that at least one of their lob-
lob-
News of the meeting was delayed because the char- movements will achieve victory be- izens America, , is currently tly
tered aircraft that journalists were using broke down fore the end of Reagan's presiden- bying for to restore U.S.
aid off
cut . aid
and they could not leave Angola until today. tial term in 1988. the Nicaraguan Congress an rebels, l ac-
'conference, Reagan sent a message of support to the The communique, called the Dec- since spring of 1984. Lehrman
'conference, saying that the rebels' goals "are our, laration of the Democratic Interns- knowledged that the alliance with
goals." tional, issued at the end of the two- the Afghan rebels, whose cause is
"Around the world we see people joining together to day conference, said that the rebel highly popular in Congress, could
. free their nations from outside domination and an groups had decided to unite because help his organization advance the
alien ideology," Reagan's letter said. their goal is the same: ~~ Nicaraguan guerrillas' cause among
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t
k
to the insur nts; although the CIA is known to have
provided more than $250 million to the Afghan rebels
fighting Soviet occupation forces and million to
icaraguan re s g ting a arms - e n nsta
government. .. I
The first conference of Armed Movements Fighting
Against Soviet Expansionism was held in Jamba, the.
Angolan rebels' "provisional capital" in southeastern
Angola, about 50 miles north of the border with the
South African-controlled territory of Namibia.
Rebell delegates held out the possibility that ex-
ne.
changes of people and arms might take place in the fu-
tu
"As` time goes by, we will defi-
nitely,implement many ways to co-
opetate-}alth each other, which will
be made known at the appropriate
time," said Adolfo Calero, head of
about- 12,000 men in the Ni-
caraguan Democratic Force.
ers.
co U.S. lawma
Reagan's letter did not mention any U.S. assistance Bence from Sogne
dicated that the new
bi i
n
colonialism brutally enforced by Savim
Soviet troops and the troops of her alliance may lead the White Clark
to seek the repeal
surrogates." he Amendment, a 1975 congressional
Besides Calero and Savimbi, the on U.S. military or humanitar-ban two-page declaration was signed by inn aid to the Angolan guerrillas
Pa Kao Her of the Ethnics Liber- _
ation Organization of Laos and Ghu-
lam Wardak of the Islamic Unity of
Afghanistan Mujaheddin.
Wardak is a former rebel who
now performs political work in the
United States. Conference organiz-
ers said the Afghan rebels' military
chiefs wanted to attend the Jamba
meetings but were prevented from
coming by Pakistan, the country
they use as a support base. The or-
ganizers said Pakistani authorities
gave no reason for their refusal.
Cambodian rebels fighting
against Vietnamese occupation
battling their country's Marxist
government.
Savimbi said he wants the Clark
Amendment repealed not so much
to receive U.S. aid but to issue a
clear warning to the Angolan gov-
ernment to send home the 25,006
Cuban troops now defending the.
government.
Rebel delegates and the two doz-
en journalists who covered the con=
ference were flown into rebel-oc.
copied Angola aboard a dilapidated
DC3 transport plane owned by 'a
South African charter company:
They took off from a small suburban
airfield outside Johannesburg.
Western diplomats in the region
say South Africa's white-minority
government is the principal source
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