Angolan Rebels Say They Bombed Soviets
From Reuters
LISBON —
Angola’s UNITA rebel group said today that at least 12 Soviets were killed when bombs planted by its forces exploded in Soviet officers’ quarters in Huambo several days ago.
UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, has fought a guerrilla war against Angola’s Soviet- and Cuban-backed Marxist government since the country’s independence from Portugal in 1975.
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