The report says Angola has been a patient and reliable participant in regional peace efforts, and is currently promoting yet another program of phased Cuban and South African troop withdrawal and that South Africa has been intransigent and obstructionist in negotiations over Namibia and has repeatedly sabotaged regional peace treaties (such as the 1984 Luanda Accords). The report says Savimbi has been all over the political map; his stridently anti-imperialist rhetoric has won him support from China and North Korea, in spite of his close collaboration with the CIA, the Portuguese colonial administration, and South Africa. The report says a weak Angola protects apartheid. • Aid to UNITA will...
The report says Angola has been a patient and reliable participant in regional peace efforts, and is currently promoting yet another program of phased Cuban and South African troop withdrawal and that South Africa has been intransigent and obstructionist in negotiations over Namibia and has repeatedly sabotaged regional peace treaties (such as the 1984 Luanda Accords). The report says Savimbi has been all over the political map; his stridently anti-imperialist rhetoric has won him support from China and North Korea, in spite of his close collaboration with the CIA, the Portuguese colonial administration, and South Africa. The report says a weak Angola protects apartheid. • Aid to UNITA will not hasten the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola • "Soviet influence" is not the greatest threat which confronts the region. South Africa is. • UNITA rebels are not "freedom fighters"; their tactics are largely terrorist. • Aid to UNIITA is aid to South Africa, both politically and logistically. • Support for UNITA will damage U.S. relations with other African nations. • The U.S. should be cultivating, not alienating, the Angolan government. • The MPLA is not a Soviet "puppet" regime; it genuinely seeks a non-aligned status. • No amount of aid will be sufficient to ensure a military victory. • Jonas Savimbi is not a reliable regional ally in whom we should place our national trust. • Aid to UNITA is irresponsible public policy in this era of deficit spending.
