World IN BRIEF : ANGOLA : Rebel Leader Plans a Return to Capital
Jonas Savimbi is returning to Luanda, the war-weary capital of Angola, 16 years after he retreated into the bush to lead U.S.-backed guerrillas in a bloody struggle against the pro-Soviet government. His return today will mark a new phase in a peace process that began with the signing of a cease-fire last May and that is set to culminate in free elections in the fall of 1992. Savimbi’s group was forced out of the capital in 1975 when the Communist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola took power on the eve of Angola’s independence from Portugal.
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