The World - News from Aug. 30, 1988
South Africa plans to complete a pullout from Angola today in compliance with a regional peace plan aimed at removing foreign troops from the country and granting independence to Namibia, the South African military said. An estimated 2,500 South African troops in Angola have been leaving since a cease-fire was declared Aug. 8. About 50,000 Cuban troops support Angola’s Marxist government in its 13-year-old war against guerrillas of UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola. South Africa and the United States back UNITA. UNITA says it will not observe the cease-fire because it has been left out of recent peace talks.
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