The World - News from June 6, 1988

Angola’s ambassador to Zambia said that Angolan rebels, with U.S. help, are moving their main bases from southeast Angola to Zaire to prepare for a thrust at the nation’s economic heartland in the north. Luis Neto Kiambata said that U.S. planes are ferrying equipment from the headquarters of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or UNITA, to areas in Zaire along Angola’s northern border. Kiambata said the U.S. goal is to cut the rebels’ ties to South Africa, which has supported UNITA since Angolan independence in 1975, and to pressure the Marxist government in Angola to negotiate. In Washington, the State Department had no comment.