The World - News from Aug. 28, 1989
Jonas Savimbi, leader of Angola’s UNITA rebels, met with South African President Frederik W. de Klerk to discuss a faltering peace accord with the Luanda government. In a rare public appearance after the meeting, Savimbi told a news conference in Pretoria: “I hope peace will get back on the rails.” But Savimbi, who has fought Angola’s Marxist government for 14 years, sharply attacked Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, accusing him of deliberately misrepresenting a peace pact signed in Gbadolite, Zaire. Each side in the Angolan conflict has accused the other of violating the cease-fire agreed upon in the June 22 accord.
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