The World - News from March 14, 1988

Cuba and Angola have offered the United States a proposal for the withdrawal of an estimated 40,000 Cuban troops from the African nation, the Angolan Foreign Ministry said. A ministry statement said, “The proposal includes a timetable for the movement of Cuban internationalist troops from the south to north of the 13th Parallel and the gradual departure of the internationalist troops to Cuba. . . .” The Cuban pullout, however, would be conditional on South Africa withdrawing its troops from Angola and a halt to U.S. and South African aid to the Angolan rebel movement, the ministry added.