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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000504770001-1: ANGOLA: FACING THE COSTS OF US INVOLVEMENT

Sl, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504770001-1 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 7 November 1985 Angola: facing the costs of US involvement /V s By Dam DT ewsom- T HE United States is about to involve itself once more in a civil war in Africa. In his recent speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Reagan listed Angola as one of the countries in which "freedom fighters" were confronting Soviet surrogates. He clearly had reference to the UNITA movement, led by Jonas Savimbi. Since Angola's independence, this movement has been fig…