ANGOLAN REBEL REJECTS PARTIAL CUBAN WITHDRAWAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 10, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By ALAN COWELL Africa and Angola.
so.o.I to The r>e. York Tim" At a news conference today in this
JAMBA, Angola, -June 2 - The bush encampment, which he calls a
provisional capital, Mr. Savimbi said
leader of the insurgents who seek the he had seen the latest United States
overthrow of the Marxist Government proposals. "We reject them because of
NEW YORK TIMES
10 June 1985
Angolan Rebel Rejects Partial Cuban Withdrawal
"withdrawal of some of the Cuban S01-
them in the country.
The Cubans back the tiarera i.i]t itr
Luanda, which the insurgent leader,
Jonas Savimbi, has been battling for 10
years.
in a speech and a news conference
here, Mr. Savimbi also said he en-
pected Government troops to mount a
new offensive against his forces. which
Mr. Savimbi, who receives support
from South Africa, is a central figure in
the intertwined conflicts that Washing-
ton has been seeking to resolve in An-
gola and South-West Africa.
Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secre-
tary of State for African Affairs, has
sought for several years - so far with-
out success - to obtain a withdrawal of
Cuban soldiers from Angola in return
for a South African pullout from South-
West Africa, widely known as Namib-
ia, and independence for the territory.
United States officials acknowledge
that Mr. Savimbi. is an important fig-
ure, since his guerrilla forces tie down
large numbers of Government and
Cuban soldiers. But publicly, he has
been excluded from discussions that
Mr. Crocker has conducted with the
Angolan and ' South African Govern-
ments. Recently Mr. Crocker pre,
sented a compromise proposal to South. i
with its policies in southern Africa. t) a Cent me 111gence Agen an
Backed by South Africa s uir_ _ African forces became em
to remain in our country," he said. De-
tails of the proposals had not previ-
ously ben made known.
Wants All Cubans Out
bi whose forces lost to
Guamrivals in the civil war
that surroutdad Angola's independ-
ence in 1975, said all Cubans had to be
withdrawn from Angola before he
would negotiate with the Luanda lead-
ership on forming a government of na-
tional unity that would prepare the na-
tion for its first elections
Angola, praised President Reagan for
his stand toward the Soviet Union, but
said he believed the State Department
claim to control the southeastern third
of Angola.
Mr. Savimbi, leader of the National
Union for the Total Independence of
to tne u
pups
popular Movement for the ration
of Angola, w_ ich rules in Luanda
He also urged the United States not to
recognize the Luanda Government.
American recognition and financial aid
are thought to be part of a package of
proposals to reduce or eliminate the
Cuban presence in Angola.
Mr.' Savimbi was speaking after he
and leaders of anti-Soviet insurgent
movements from Afghanistan, Laos
and Nicaragua signed an agreement to
cooperate as the Democratic Interna-
tional, a body sponsored by a group of
conservative Americans headed by
Lewis E. Lehrman, the millionaire Re-
publican who ran for Governor of New
York in 1982. The group has been lik-
ened to the kind of alliances fostered in
the past by Moscow among pro-Soviet
guerrilla organizations.
Mr. Savitnbi said that when Presi-
dent Reagan was re-elected last year,
the 12,066 to 13,ON inhabitants of
Jambe, close to the border with South-
West Africa, rejoiced. But in a speech
at a military parade, the rebel leader
accused the State Department of un-
dermining the White House, appar
ently by negotiating with Luanda while
publicly ignoring him.
"The Russians will not stop unless
we stop them," he said. "The United
States has to assume its own responsi-
bility toward those who lovefreedom. "
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