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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press monday May 8, 1978 Zambia aide presses for Smith 9s ouster patriotic front. Nkomo guerrillas Are also reported being trained in Cuba and Angola. Lusaka Reuter a zambian presidential aide said sunday the War in neighbouring Rhodesia will escalate rapidly if the West fails to remove White prime minister Ian Smith. He indicated cuban troops could become involved. Untl1 now Zamd an president Kenneth Kaunda has up to 70 cuban advisers Are said to be in Zambia helping resisted cuban forces in the rhodesian War. ago train rhodesian guerrillas of Joshua Nkomo s Wing of the he condemned soviet and cuban intervention in Angola. My son in Florida sent it the Ltd big bouquet for this Mother s Day weekend. It s so easy to Send your love to mom Early. Just Call or visit your Ltd Florist. He can Send your big hug bouquet almost any where the Ltd Way. 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A Cia spokesman Lavon Strong said the Agency had no immediate comment on Stockwell s allegations. In the interview Stockwell said 9 the Cia had advisers and train ers on the ground inside Angola in violation of the orders of its operations advisory group. 8 the Cia offered bounties for Sto Len aircraft then used the planes to Fly arms to Angola. The Cia recruited and delivered european mercenaries and played a role in sending . Mercenaries to the country. Othe Cia and the . Govern ment encouraged South Africa to intervene in Angola and had close con tact with them once they were there. The interview was broadcast the Lay before publication of a Book by a Lockwell about lie Cia operation called in search of enemies. Had the Cia option the violent option not existed in Angola we would t have had the escalation of War and we would t have had cuban soldiers looked upon As heroes of the people of Stockwell said. And this is because of the Blun Dering stupidity if you will of the Cia s paramilitary Stockwell said former . State Secretary Henry Kissinger had the original idea of a Cia operation in Angola but intended it As a Bluff aimed at the soviets. It was certainly Clear i believe to 98 per cent of the world at that Point that the Cia could not go in with another Vietnam sized opera Stockwell said. Faced resistance Johannesburg a Soulli african paratroopers fought Trench to Trench Battles to overrun guerrilla bases in Angola last Veck a South african general said sunday. We came up against Tough Resis Tance much stronger than we expect . Hannes Botha chief of staff for operations said in an interview. Swap continued fight ing to the last breath so seriously that they were shot dead four deep in the the raid into Angola on thursday has been described by South Africa As retaliation against the South Wesl Africa people s organization for guerrilla raids in South West Africa also known As Namibia. Botha s interview was published in the newspaper rapport. South african officials said their suffered five dead and less than a dozen wounded. Tit newspaper quoted Swap sources in Lusaka Zambia As saying at least of the almost guerrillas in the Border area were killed. Elisio de Figueiredo Angola s ambassador to the United nations said Friday in new York that 50-1 South West african refugees in Angola were killed and 22-1 were wounded. He said 1c angolan soldiers were slain and 6-1 were wounded. South Africa s deepest penetration was at Cassing 240 Kilometres North of South West Africa which South african military office alias say served As a Headquarters for Swap guerrillas. 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Is not South Africa entitled to protect its own troops against ambush and mine laying by those who shelter across the Border in Angola when they have perpetrated their cowardly asked Harry Schwarz opposition defence spokesman. In Lusaka the South West Africa people s organization Swap said sunday that 500 people mainly women and children were killed in the raid. A Swap spokesman said South african troops Are still occupying the angolan town of n rive about 40 kilo metres inside the Border. The South african govern ment which said five of its men were killed has refused to comment on Swap casualties. But a military spokesman repeated sunday that All South african troops had left Angola ;