The World - News from May 16, 1989
A senior U.N. official confirmed that Namibian nationalist guerrillas have pulled back into Angola and have been confined to camps there. Maj. John Ryan of the U.N. Transition Assistance Group for Namibia said that 5,166 guerrillas of the South-West Africa People’s Organization paraded over the weekend at Chibemba in southern Angola, where they were counted by U.N. officials. Ryan spoke as officials from South Africa, Angola and Cuba and Soviet and U.S. observers were meeting to determine whether all SWAPO fighters had quit Namibia. If they agree, Pretoria is expected to resume its own withdrawal under a U.N. independence plan.
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