World IN BRIEF : ANGOLA : Rebel Leader to Step Down if Outpolled
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi said he will step down as head of the UNITA movement he created 25 years ago if he loses in Angola’s first free elections, planned for autumn 1992. But Savimbi, 56, said he is confident that UNITA--the Portuguese acronym for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola--will win and that he will become Angola’s first freely elected president. He spoke to journalists in Lisbon two days after signing peace accords with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
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