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Angolan Secretary of State Rodeth Gil departs Luanda on a working visit to
Cuba. Angolan Education Minister Augusto Lopes Teixeira and his delegation
visit four farms schools attended by some 1,800 Angolan students on the Isle of
Youth.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with his Angolan counterpart Boaven-
tura da Silva Cardoso in Havana; a cultural exchange agreement in the field of
music is signed on 18 May.
A Cuban delegation from the Ministry of Education, the National Science and
Education Workers Union, the Union of Young Communists, and the Federation
of Intermediate Level Students visits Angola.
Minister President of the State Committee for Finance Francisco Garcia Valls
visits various Angolan oil fields in Zaire Province.
Angola’s official news agency ANGOP rejects any link between negotiations for
the independence of Namibia and the presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
Rene Rodriguez Cruz, President of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with
Peoples (ICAP) visits Luanda and meets with Lucio Lara, MPLA-Labor Party
Central Committee secretary for organization.
Fidel Castro cites Cuba’s conditions for troop withdrawal from Angola and
provides economic statistics for Cuba during a low-key speech marking the 29th
anniversary of the revolution. ANGOP news agency reports that Angola rejects
the US proposal for simultaneous withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola as a
condition for the settlement of the Namibian problem.
Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, says that about 8,500 Cuban troops, with Soviet
advisers and equipment, are leading a major offensive against his Angolan
opposition movement.
Minister of Education Jose Fernandez says that a report in The Wall Street
Journal that 2,000 Angolan students in Cuba had been expelled is “an infamous
lie.”
Rene Rodriguez Cruz and Coelho da Cruz, President of the Angolan League for
Friendship and Solidarity with Peoples (LAASP) sign a 5-year cooperation
agreement for 1982-87 in Luanda. Angolan Ambassador to Cuba Baptista tells the
press that relations between Cuba and Angola “are excellent” and that Cuban
troops will leave Angola “little by little”_ when the governments decide.
Havana announces that 1,000 Angolan students will arrive soon to join the almost
2,000 others currently in Cuba.
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