Private Meeting with Dr. Jonas Savimbi, February 5, 1986

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Private Meeting with Dr. Jonas Savimbi, February 5, 1986

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Wallop, Malcolm

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JAMES A. MCCLURE, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
MARK O. HATFIELD, OREGON
LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR., CONNECTICUT
PETE V. DOMENICI, NEW MEXICO
MALCOLM WALLOP, WYOMING
JOHN W. WARNER, VIRGINIA
FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, ALASKA
DON NICKLES, OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT, NEVADA
DANIEL J. EVANS, WASHINGTON
J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, LOUISIANA
DALE BUMPERS, ARKANSAS
WENDELL H. FORD, KENTUCKY
HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, OHIO
JOHN MELCHER, MONTANA
BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY
JEFF BINGAMAN, NEW MEXICO
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WEST VIRGINIA
FRANK M. CUSHING, STAFF DIRECTOR
GARY G. ELLSWORTH, CHIEF COUNSEL
D. MICHAEL HARVEY, CHIEF COUNSEL FOR THE MINORITY

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
January 30, 1986

The Honorable Robert Dole
Majority Leader
United States Senate
Room S 230
U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Dole:
On December 19, 1985, you introduced in the Senate Resolution 280, a sense of the Senate resolution on aid to Dr. Jonas Savimibi's Angolan freedom fighters. On that date, you asked unanimous consent that the resolution be appropriately referred and that the resolution be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be printed in the Record and was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
On December 19 I raised no objection to these measures. Thereafter I discovered that the resolution text was not the same one as that to which I agreed. The resolution text to which I had agreed in advance was one which had been carefully worked out between the staff of the Republican Steering Committee and your staff.
Obviously, I am genuinely distressed by the fact that the agreed text was not used. Had I known of this matter on December 19, I would have raised objections to it on the Senate floor. My objections include the facts that the resolution used was rambling and repetitive, its description of the true urgency of the military and political situation in Angola was hedged, and it provided for the imposition of economic sanctions in the Angolan situation. It also failed to include the word critical in the final passage which was to conclude with the phrase that the Senate would support the provision early in 1986 of material assistance critical to UNITA.


(page 2)
The Honorable Robert Dole
January 30, 1986
Page 2

The use of the resolution text to which I object has been described as an error. I know that you asked and were granted unanimous consent to have the correct resolution text star printed in the Record on January 22, 1986. I certainly do appreciate that. However, I want you to know how troubled I am that the error was made in the first place. I fear that many who have been following the Angola issue may never see the star printed version and that they may continue to believe that I had no objections to the earlier text. I would ask you to set the record straight on this at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,
(signature)
Malcolm Wallop
United States Senator

MW/jcj

cc:
Jo-Anne Coe
Howard Greene
Elizabeth Baldwin
Sheila Burke
Al Lehn


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER
S-230 THE CAPITOL

1 February 1986
Joyce :
Attached is a list of Senators invited to both the 11:30 meeting in S-230 and the luncheon. Non-Senate guests have been included as well.
We are in the process of getting a firmer head count on Savimbi's party. Once done, will be back in touch.
Dave


(page 4)
ROSTER OF SENATORS INVITED TO MEETING WITH DR. JONAS SAVIMBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 11:30 A.M.
ROOM S-230 OF THE CAPITOL

Kassebaum
Helms
Trible
Wallop
Durenberger
Roth
McClure
Wilson
Quayle
McConnell
Hatch
Mathias
Symms
Denton
Armstrong
Evans
Kasten
East

* (ABOVE SENATORS HAVE ALSO BEEN INVITED TO LUNCHEON)
PD/MSAVMTG


(page 5)
INVITIATION LIST
LUNCHEON FOR DR. JONAS SAVIMBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
12:00 NOON IN ROOM S-126

Honorable Jeane Kirkpatrick American Enterprise Institute
Dr. Amos A. Jordan President Center for Strategic & International Studies
David A. Kenne Keene, Monk and Associates
Neil B. Blair President Ruff PAC
Dr. Edwin J. Fuelner, Jr. President Heritage Foundation
John Fisher Director American Security Council
George Will Newsweek Magazine
Bob Novak Field Newspaper Syndicate
Howard Phillips
Chris Lehman Black, Mannafort & Stone

PD/LNCHSAV1


(page 6)
PRIVATE OFFICE MEETING
Wednesday, February 5, 11:30 am

RECOMMENDED
Kassebaum
Helms
Trible
Wallop
Durenberger
Roth
McConnell
Hatch
Mathias

OTHER POSSIBLES
Symms
Denton
Armstrong
Evans
Kasten


(page 7)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

11:30 Savimbi

United States Senate
OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER
S-230 THE CAPITOL

Heinz (? crossed out)
East
Wilson - armed services
Hatch No
(checked) Helms (crossed out) on way (end cross out)
(checked) Wallop
McConnell on way
(checked) Symms
(checked) McClure
(checked) Armstrong
Evans No
(checked) Kasten (crossed out) on way (end cross out)


(page 8)
PROFILE ON UNITA PRESIDENT JONAS SAVIMBI: GUERRILLA LEADER, POLITICIAN, STATESMAN AND POET

[image to right of text: portrait of Savimbi in uniform, captioned 'Savimbi in uniform with the old UNITA rank insignia of a general.']

The world has been witness to some remarkable statesmen and leaders in the twentieth century, men who have left their indelible stamp on the course of contemporary history by virtue of their "greatness" - that quality so notoriously difficult to define. In the Western World, leaders such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle, among others, can be said to have possessed the stamp of true greatness.
Africa itself has been rather less well endowed in this century with leaders of international stature. Unfortunately it is a continent best remembered for leaders of spectacular ineptitude such as Idi Amin and Emperor Bokassa, and maverick leaders like Col. Gaddafi. For all this, there have been a number of African leaders in the post-colonial era whose talents and charisma acquired them an international reputation in their lifetimes - men like Kwame Nkrumah, Abdul Nasser and Jomo Kenyatta to mention but a few.
Probably the most remarkable of all contemporary African leaders, however, is UNITA's founder and leader, Jonas Savimbi.
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi was born on 3 August 1934 at Munhango in the Moxico province of Angola. He was given a strict Protestant missionary upbringing by his father, Lot Savimbi. Jonas was educated at the Protestant primary school in his father's village, Chilesso, at the Dondi Mission School, and at secondary schools in Silva Porto (Bie) and Sa da Bandeira (Lubango). From an early age Jonas Savimbi displayed a keen intellect and a willingness to learn

7


(page 9)
and in September 1958 he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Lisbon. In 1960, under pressure from the Portuguese secret police, he transferred to Fribourg University and finally to the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where he studied for a "licencié" in political science before entering Angolan nationalist politics full-time towards the end of 1961. Savimbi initially aligned himself with Holden Roberto's UPA (later to become the FNLA), but in July 1964, disillusioned by Roberto's inefficiency, corruption and tribal prejudices he resigned his position as foreign minister of the resistance organization. Two years later, in March 1966, he founded UNITA.
It is no exaggeration to say that UNITA has owed its formation, growth, survival and ultimate success chiefly to the talents and efforts of Savimbi. He has been the elected President of UNITA since its inception. Apart from his position as President, he is also the Supreme Commander of UNITA's armed forces (FALA) with the rank of general, as well as being chairman of UNITA's highest executive decision-making body, the Central Committee.
The UNITA leader is a member of Angola's largest ethnolinguistic community, the Ovimbundu. Apart from a natural fluency in Umbundu, Savimbi is completely at home in several other languages, including Portuguese, English, French and German. Foreign journalists and media men who have interviewed Savimbi have invariably been impressed by his command of so many languages.
Much of the respect which Savimbi commands throughout Africa, and much of his personal popularity among his devoted followers, stems from the rectitude of his personal habits and characteristics. Savimbi has never been an exhibitionist guerrilla leader with a penchant for outrageous uniform and other superficial personal paraphernalia. He is a man of sober habits (in fact he has an aversion to strong alcohol), doesn't smoke and is always impeccably, but not flamboyantly attired. He is also extremely hardworking, rising regularly at 4 a.m. and retiring near midnight.
Savimbi is not only an extremely honest person, but also a strong believer in honour. He abhors corruption and dishonesty and deals drastically with defaulters in these respects.
Not surprisingly considering his missionary upbringing, Savimbi is a deeply religious person, and actively promotes religion among UNITA's ranks. He has, for example, been instrumental in the compilation of a UNITA hymnal. He also often sponsors visits abroad by UNITA priests, and is very knowledgable on the Bible. It is his religious convictions, too, which have no doubt contributed to the success of his family life.
A familiar observation made by people who have come into personal contact with Savimbi is that he is a man of immense charm, polish and courtesy. He is also extremely articulate and has a very agile mind, qualities which immediately come to the fore when he is engaged in conversation or debate.
Impressive as Savimbi's personal qualities and characteristics may be, it is the quite astonishing range of his other attributes that really distinguishes him from his more mundane run-of-the-mill contemporaries in Africa. For Savimbi is not only a guerrilla leader of renown, but he is also a statesman of international repute, a strategist, a skilled politician, a supreme orator and a poet and writer of no little talent.
Savimbi is unquestionably Africa's longest surviving and most experienced guerrilla leader. He has actively campaigned in the field for over 20 years, first against the Portuguese and since 1975 against the Cuban-backed MPLA regime. During that time he estimates that he has walked at least 30 000 km. Savimbi is a leader who likes to lead by example. He insists on sharing the same dangers, hardships and adversities as his troops. As he stated during the early years of the struggle against the Portuguese "A guerrilla who takes with him a camp-bed and tinned foods is incapable of winning the people's confidence and co-operation". It is this attitude, together with his refusal to become dispirited when things go wrong, which has won him such love and admiration from his guerrillas, who refer to him as "Jaguar Negro Das Jagas" (meaning roughly the "Black Jaguar of the Hunt- ers").
Apart from his vast experience at a tactical level of guerrilla operations, Savimbi is also well versed in the wider strategy of guerrilla warfare. During the nineteen-sixties he conferred with various experts on guerrilla warfare such as Vo Nguyen Giap of North Vietnam and Che Guevara, and he has used this intimate knowledge of guerrilla warfare to good effect in turning the tables on the present-day Cubans in Angola. Savimbi is also an avid reader of military history, possessing an incredible capacity for absorbing and remembering dates, places, facts and statistics - an essential capability for any successful military leader.
If Savimbi is well-versed in military matters, he is also an equally adroit politician. It is largely his political skills and charisma which have enabled him to drum up the incredible support which UNITA now enjoys, not only from Savimbi's own Ovimbundu people, but also from all of Angola's major ethnolinguistic communities. Prime among these political skills is Savimbi's extraordinary powers of oratory - he is a brilliant speechmaker with the capacity to sweep up the emotions of his audience and hold their attention for literally hours on end. Another reason for Savimbi's phenomenal political popularity in Angola is the fact that he is a shrewd judge of the ordinary man. J. A. Marcum, the principal Western historian on Angola, has rightly called Savimbi "a crowd pleasing aggregator... with a capacity for telling people what they want to hear".
A facet of the mercurial UNITA leader which is not well known is that he is a poet and writer of considerable talent, having composed poems and written several articles and books on UNITA's struggle for freedom in Angola.
In addition to all this, Savimbi is an international statesman in the truest sense of the word. He has the capacity to think in global and strategic terms and is extremely well informed and knowledgeable on international affairs - chiefly as a result of his travels, his avid reading habits, and the fact that he

9


(page 10)
listens to news broadcasts in several languages every day. So much so, that his opinion on various aspects of international affairs and politics is regularly sought after not only in Africa but further afield as well. Mention should be made too, of the fact that Savimbi personally knows and enjoys the respect of the great majority of Black Africa's leaders, however reluctant they might be to admit this in public for political reasons.
All things considered, there can be little doubt that Jonas Savimbi stands out among the leaders of Africa today as a quite exceptional leader in every respect. He is a man of vision, great wisdom, and diversified talents - "truly a man for all seasons". Not only Angola, but the entire Southern African region, will derive immense benefit when the charismatic UNITA leader assumes his rightful place among the foremost leaders of Africa.

[image to right of text: portrait of Savimbi in uniform, captioned 'Savimbi in uniform with the new rank insignia of a general.']

11

JAMES A. MCCLURE, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
MARK O. HATFIELD, OREGON
LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR., CONNECTICUT
PETE V. DOMENICI, NEW MEXICO
MALCOLM WALLOP, WYOMING
JOHN W. WARNER, VIRGINIA
FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, ALASKA
DON NICKLES, OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT, NEVADA
DANIEL J. EVANS, WASHINGTON
J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, LOUISIANA
DALE BUMPERS, ARKANSAS
WENDELL H. FORD, KENTUCKY
HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, OHIO
JOHN MELCHER, MONTANA
BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY
JEFF BINGAMAN, NEW MEXICO
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WEST VIRGINIA
FRANK M. CUSHING, STAFF DIRECTOR
GARY G. ELLSWORTH, CHIEF COUNSEL
D. MICHAEL HARVEY, CHIEF COUNSEL FOR THE MINORITY

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
January 30, 1986

The Honorable Robert Dole
Majority Leader
United States Senate
Room S 230
U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Dole:
On December 19, 1985, you introduced in the Senate Resolution 280, a sense of the Senate resolution on aid to Dr. Jonas Savimibi's Angolan freedom fighters. On that date, you asked unanimous consent that the resolution be appropriately referred and that the resolution be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be printed in the Record and was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
On December 19 I raised no objection to these measures. Thereafter I discovered that the resolution text was not the same one as that to which I agreed. The resolution text to which I had agreed in advance was one which had been carefully worked out between the staff of the Republican Steering Committee and your staff.
Obviously, I am genuinely distressed by the fact that the agreed text was not used. Had I known of this matter on December 19, I would have raised objections to it on the Senate floor. My objections include the facts that the resolution used was rambling and repetitive, its description of the true urgency of the military and political situation in Angola was hedged, and it provided for the imposition of economic sanctions in the Angolan situation. It also failed to include the word critical in the final passage which was to conclude with the phrase that the Senate would support the provision early in 1986 of material assistance critical to UNITA.


(page 2)
The Honorable Robert Dole
January 30, 1986
Page 2

The use of the resolution text to which I object has been described as an error. I know that you asked and were granted unanimous consent to have the correct resolution text star printed in the Record on January 22, 1986. I certainly do appreciate that. However, I want you to know how troubled I am that the error was made in the first place. I fear that many who have been following the Angola issue may never see the star printed version and that they may continue to believe that I had no objections to the earlier text. I would ask you to set the record straight on this at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,
(signature)
Malcolm Wallop
United States Senator

MW/jcj

cc:
Jo-Anne Coe
Howard Greene
Elizabeth Baldwin
Sheila Burke
Al Lehn


(page 3)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER
S-230 THE CAPITOL

1 February 1986
Joyce :
Attached is a list of Senators invited to both the 11:30 meeting in S-230 and the luncheon. Non-Senate guests have been included as well.
We are in the process of getting a firmer head count on Savimbi's party. Once done, will be back in touch.
Dave


(page 4)
ROSTER OF SENATORS INVITED TO MEETING WITH DR. JONAS SAVIMBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 11:30 A.M.
ROOM S-230 OF THE CAPITOL

Kassebaum
Helms
Trible
Wallop
Durenberger
Roth
McClure
Wilson
Quayle
McConnell
Hatch
Mathias
Symms
Denton
Armstrong
Evans
Kasten
East

* (ABOVE SENATORS HAVE ALSO BEEN INVITED TO LUNCHEON)
PD/MSAVMTG


(page 5)
INVITIATION LIST
LUNCHEON FOR DR. JONAS SAVIMBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
12:00 NOON IN ROOM S-126

Honorable Jeane Kirkpatrick American Enterprise Institute
Dr. Amos A. Jordan President Center for Strategic & International Studies
David A. Kenne Keene, Monk and Associates
Neil B. Blair President Ruff PAC
Dr. Edwin J. Fuelner, Jr. President Heritage Foundation
John Fisher Director American Security Council
George Will Newsweek Magazine
Bob Novak Field Newspaper Syndicate
Howard Phillips
Chris Lehman Black, Mannafort & Stone

PD/LNCHSAV1


(page 6)
PRIVATE OFFICE MEETING
Wednesday, February 5, 11:30 am

RECOMMENDED
Kassebaum
Helms
Trible
Wallop
Durenberger
Roth
McConnell
Hatch
Mathias

OTHER POSSIBLES
Symms
Denton
Armstrong
Evans
Kasten


(page 7)
BOB DOLE
KANSAS

11:30 Savimbi

United States Senate
OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER
S-230 THE CAPITOL

Heinz (? crossed out)
East
Wilson - armed services
Hatch No
(checked) Helms (crossed out) on way (end cross out)
(checked) Wallop
McConnell on way
(checked) Symms
(checked) McClure
(checked) Armstrong
Evans No
(checked) Kasten (crossed out) on way (end cross out)


(page 8)
PROFILE ON UNITA PRESIDENT JONAS SAVIMBI: GUERRILLA LEADER, POLITICIAN, STATESMAN AND POET

[image to right of text: portrait of Savimbi in uniform, captioned 'Savimbi in uniform with the old UNITA rank insignia of a general.']

The world has been witness to some remarkable statesmen and leaders in the twentieth century, men who have left their indelible stamp on the course of contemporary history by virtue of their "greatness" - that quality so notoriously difficult to define. In the Western World, leaders such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle, among others, can be said to have possessed the stamp of true greatness.
Africa itself has been rather less well endowed in this century with leaders of international stature. Unfortunately it is a continent best remembered for leaders of spectacular ineptitude such as Idi Amin and Emperor Bokassa, and maverick leaders like Col. Gaddafi. For all this, there have been a number of African leaders in the post-colonial era whose talents and charisma acquired them an international reputation in their lifetimes - men like Kwame Nkrumah, Abdul Nasser and Jomo Kenyatta to mention but a few.
Probably the most remarkable of all contemporary African leaders, however, is UNITA's founder and leader, Jonas Savimbi.
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi was born on 3 August 1934 at Munhango in the Moxico province of Angola. He was given a strict Protestant missionary upbringing by his father, Lot Savimbi. Jonas was educated at the Protestant primary school in his father's village, Chilesso, at the Dondi Mission School, and at secondary schools in Silva Porto (Bie) and Sa da Bandeira (Lubango). From an early age Jonas Savimbi displayed a keen intellect and a willingness to learn

7


(page 9)
and in September 1958 he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Lisbon. In 1960, under pressure from the Portuguese secret police, he transferred to Fribourg University and finally to the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where he studied for a "licencié" in political science before entering Angolan nationalist politics full-time towards the end of 1961. Savimbi initially aligned himself with Holden Roberto's UPA (later to become the FNLA), but in July 1964, disillusioned by Roberto's inefficiency, corruption and tribal prejudices he resigned his position as foreign minister of the resistance organization. Two years later, in March 1966, he founded UNITA.
It is no exaggeration to say that UNITA has owed its formation, growth, survival and ultimate success chiefly to the talents and efforts of Savimbi. He has been the elected President of UNITA since its inception. Apart from his position as President, he is also the Supreme Commander of UNITA's armed forces (FALA) with the rank of general, as well as being chairman of UNITA's highest executive decision-making body, the Central Committee.
The UNITA leader is a member of Angola's largest ethnolinguistic community, the Ovimbundu. Apart from a natural fluency in Umbundu, Savimbi is completely at home in several other languages, including Portuguese, English, French and German. Foreign journalists and media men who have interviewed Savimbi have invariably been impressed by his command of so many languages.
Much of the respect which Savimbi commands throughout Africa, and much of his personal popularity among his devoted followers, stems from the rectitude of his personal habits and characteristics. Savimbi has never been an exhibitionist guerrilla leader with a penchant for outrageous uniform and other superficial personal paraphernalia. He is a man of sober habits (in fact he has an aversion to strong alcohol), doesn't smoke and is always impeccably, but not flamboyantly attired. He is also extremely hardworking, rising regularly at 4 a.m. and retiring near midnight.
Savimbi is not only an extremely honest person, but also a strong believer in honour. He abhors corruption and dishonesty and deals drastically with defaulters in these respects.
Not surprisingly considering his missionary upbringing, Savimbi is a deeply religious person, and actively promotes religion among UNITA's ranks. He has, for example, been instrumental in the compilation of a UNITA hymnal. He also often sponsors visits abroad by UNITA priests, and is very knowledgable on the Bible. It is his religious convictions, too, which have no doubt contributed to the success of his family life.
A familiar observation made by people who have come into personal contact with Savimbi is that he is a man of immense charm, polish and courtesy. He is also extremely articulate and has a very agile mind, qualities which immediately come to the fore when he is engaged in conversation or debate.
Impressive as Savimbi's personal qualities and characteristics may be, it is the quite astonishing range of his other attributes that really distinguishes him from his more mundane run-of-the-mill contemporaries in Africa. For Savimbi is not only a guerrilla leader of renown, but he is also a statesman of international repute, a strategist, a skilled politician, a supreme orator and a poet and writer of no little talent.
Savimbi is unquestionably Africa's longest surviving and most experienced guerrilla leader. He has actively campaigned in the field for over 20 years, first against the Portuguese and since 1975 against the Cuban-backed MPLA regime. During that time he estimates that he has walked at least 30 000 km. Savimbi is a leader who likes to lead by example. He insists on sharing the same dangers, hardships and adversities as his troops. As he stated during the early years of the struggle against the Portuguese "A guerrilla who takes with him a camp-bed and tinned foods is incapable of winning the people's confidence and co-operation". It is this attitude, together with his refusal to become dispirited when things go wrong, which has won him such love and admiration from his guerrillas, who refer to him as "Jaguar Negro Das Jagas" (meaning roughly the "Black Jaguar of the Hunt- ers").
Apart from his vast experience at a tactical level of guerrilla operations, Savimbi is also well versed in the wider strategy of guerrilla warfare. During the nineteen-sixties he conferred with various experts on guerrilla warfare such as Vo Nguyen Giap of North Vietnam and Che Guevara, and he has used this intimate knowledge of guerrilla warfare to good effect in turning the tables on the present-day Cubans in Angola. Savimbi is also an avid reader of military history, possessing an incredible capacity for absorbing and remembering dates, places, facts and statistics - an essential capability for any successful military leader.
If Savimbi is well-versed in military matters, he is also an equally adroit politician. It is largely his political skills and charisma which have enabled him to drum up the incredible support which UNITA now enjoys, not only from Savimbi's own Ovimbundu people, but also from all of Angola's major ethnolinguistic communities. Prime among these political skills is Savimbi's extraordinary powers of oratory - he is a brilliant speechmaker with the capacity to sweep up the emotions of his audience and hold their attention for literally hours on end. Another reason for Savimbi's phenomenal political popularity in Angola is the fact that he is a shrewd judge of the ordinary man. J. A. Marcum, the principal Western historian on Angola, has rightly called Savimbi "a crowd pleasing aggregator... with a capacity for telling people what they want to hear".
A facet of the mercurial UNITA leader which is not well known is that he is a poet and writer of considerable talent, having composed poems and written several articles and books on UNITA's struggle for freedom in Angola.
In addition to all this, Savimbi is an international statesman in the truest sense of the word. He has the capacity to think in global and strategic terms and is extremely well informed and knowledgeable on international affairs - chiefly as a result of his travels, his avid reading habits, and the fact that he

9


(page 10)
listens to news broadcasts in several languages every day. So much so, that his opinion on various aspects of international affairs and politics is regularly sought after not only in Africa but further afield as well. Mention should be made too, of the fact that Savimbi personally knows and enjoys the respect of the great majority of Black Africa's leaders, however reluctant they might be to admit this in public for political reasons.
All things considered, there can be little doubt that Jonas Savimbi stands out among the leaders of Africa today as a quite exceptional leader in every respect. He is a man of vision, great wisdom, and diversified talents - "truly a man for all seasons". Not only Angola, but the entire Southern African region, will derive immense benefit when the charismatic UNITA leader assumes his rightful place among the foremost leaders of Africa.

[image to right of text: portrait of Savimbi in uniform, captioned 'Savimbi in uniform with the new rank insignia of a general.']

11

JAMES A. MCCLURE, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
MARK O. HATFIELD, OREGON
LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR., CONNECTICUT
PETE V. DOMENICI, NEW MEXICO
MALCOLM WALLOP, WYOMING
JOHN W. WARNER, VIRGINIA
FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, ALASKA
DON NICKLES, OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT, NEVADA
DANIEL J. EVANS, WASHINGTON
J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, LOUISIANA
DALE BUMPERS, ARKANSAS
WENDELL H. FORD, KENTUCKY
HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, OHIO
JOHN MELCHER, MONTANA
BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY
JEFF BINGAMAN, NEW MEXICO
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WEST VIRGINIA
FRANK M. CUSHING, STAFF DIRECTOR
GARY G. ELLSWORTH, CHIEF COUNSEL
D. MICHAEL HARVEY, CHIEF COUNSEL FOR THE MINORITY

United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
January 30, 1986

The Honorable Robert Dole
Majority Leader
United States Senate
Room S 230
U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Dole:
On December 19, 1985, you introduced in the Senate Resolution 280, a sense of the Senate resolution on aid to Dr. Jonas Savimibi's Angolan freedom fighters. On that date, you asked unanimous consent that the resolution be appropriately referred and that the resolution be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be printed in the Record and was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
On December 19 I raised no objection to these measures. Thereafter I discovered that the resolution text was not the same one as that to which I agreed. The resolution text to which I had agreed in advance was one which had been carefully worked out between the staff of the Republican Steering Committee and your staff.
Obviously, I am genuinely distressed by the fact that the agreed text was not used. Had I known of this matter on December 19, I would have raised objections to it on the Senate floor. My objections include the facts that the resolution used was rambling and repetitive, its description of the true urgency of the military and political situation in Angola was hedged, and it provided for the imposition of economic sanctions in the Angolan situation. It also failed to include the word critical in the final passage which was to conclude with the phrase that the Senate would support the provision early in 1986 of material assistance critical to UNITA.


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The Honorable Robert Dole
January 30, 1986
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The use of the resolution text to which I object has been described as an error. I know that you asked and were granted unanimous consent to have the correct resolution text star printed in the Record on January 22, 1986. I certainly do appreciate that. However, I want you to know how troubled I am that the error was made in the first place. I fear that many who have been following the Angola issue may never see the star printed version and that they may continue to believe that I had no objections to the earlier text. I would ask you to set the record straight on this at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,
(signature)
Malcolm Wallop
United States Senator

MW/jcj

cc:
Jo-Anne Coe
Howard Greene
Elizabeth Baldwin
Sheila Burke
Al Lehn


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BOB DOLE
KANSAS

United States Senate
OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER
S-230 THE CAPITOL

1 February 1986
Joyce :
Attached is a list of Senators invited to both the 11:30 meeting in S-230 and the luncheon. Non-Senate guests have been included as well.
We are in the process of getting a firmer head count on Savimbi's party. Once done, will be back in touch.
Dave


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ROSTER OF SENATORS INVITED TO MEETING WITH DR. JONAS SAVIMBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 11:30 A.M.
ROOM S-230 OF THE CAPITOL

Kassebaum
Helms
Trible
Wallop
Durenberger
Roth
McClure
Wilson
Quayle
McConnell
Hatch
Mathias
Symms
Denton
Armstrong
Evans
Kasten
East

* (ABOVE SENATORS HAVE ALSO BEEN INVITED TO LUNCHEON)
PD/MSAVMTG


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INVITIATION LIST
LUNCHEON FOR DR. JONAS SAVIMBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
12:00 NOON IN ROOM S-126

Honorable Jeane Kirkpatrick American Enterprise Institute
Dr. Amos A. Jordan President Center for Strategic & International Studies
David A. Kenne Keene, Monk and Associates
Neil B. Blair President Ruff PAC
Dr. Edwin J. Fuelner, Jr. President Heritage Foundation
John Fisher Director American Security Council
George Will Newsweek Magazine
Bob Novak Field Newspaper Syndicate
Howard Phillips
Chris Lehman Black, Mannafort & Stone

PD/LNCHSAV1


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PRIVATE OFFICE MEETING
Wednesday, February 5, 11:30 am

RECOMMENDED
Kassebaum
Helms
Trible
Wallop
Durenberger
Roth
McConnell
Hatch
Mathias

OTHER POSSIBLES
Symms
Denton
Armstrong
Evans
Kasten


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BOB DOLE
KANSAS

11:30 Savimbi

United States Senate
OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER
S-230 THE CAPITOL

Heinz (? crossed out)
East
Wilson - armed services
Hatch No
(checked) Helms (crossed out) on way (end cross out)
(checked) Wallop
McConnell on way
(checked) Symms
(checked) McClure
(checked) Armstrong
Evans No
(checked) Kasten (crossed out) on way (end cross out)


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PROFILE ON UNITA PRESIDENT JONAS SAVIMBI: GUERRILLA LEADER, POLITICIAN, STATESMAN AND POET

[image to right of text: portrait of Savimbi in uniform, captioned 'Savimbi in uniform with the old UNITA rank insignia of a general.']

The world has been witness to some remarkable statesmen and leaders in the twentieth century, men who have left their indelible stamp on the course of contemporary history by virtue of their "greatness" - that quality so notoriously difficult to define. In the Western World, leaders such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle, among others, can be said to have possessed the stamp of true greatness.
Africa itself has been rather less well endowed in this century with leaders of international stature. Unfortunately it is a continent best remembered for leaders of spectacular ineptitude such as Idi Amin and Emperor Bokassa, and maverick leaders like Col. Gaddafi. For all this, there have been a number of African leaders in the post-colonial era whose talents and charisma acquired them an international reputation in their lifetimes - men like Kwame Nkrumah, Abdul Nasser and Jomo Kenyatta to mention but a few.
Probably the most remarkable of all contemporary African leaders, however, is UNITA's founder and leader, Jonas Savimbi.
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi was born on 3 August 1934 at Munhango in the Moxico province of Angola. He was given a strict Protestant missionary upbringing by his father, Lot Savimbi. Jonas was educated at the Protestant primary school in his father's village, Chilesso, at the Dondi Mission School, and at secondary schools in Silva Porto (Bie) and Sa da Bandeira (Lubango). From an early age Jonas Savimbi displayed a keen intellect and a willingness to learn

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and in September 1958 he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Lisbon. In 1960, under pressure from the Portuguese secret police, he transferred to Fribourg University and finally to the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where he studied for a "licencié" in political science before entering Angolan nationalist politics full-time towards the end of 1961. Savimbi initially aligned himself with Holden Roberto's UPA (later to become the FNLA), but in July 1964, disillusioned by Roberto's inefficiency, corruption and tribal prejudices he resigned his position as foreign minister of the resistance organization. Two years later, in March 1966, he founded UNITA.
It is no exaggeration to say that UNITA has owed its formation, growth, survival and ultimate success chiefly to the talents and efforts of Savimbi. He has been the elected President of UNITA since its inception. Apart from his position as President, he is also the Supreme Commander of UNITA's armed forces (FALA) with the rank of general, as well as being chairman of UNITA's highest executive decision-making body, the Central Committee.
The UNITA leader is a member of Angola's largest ethnolinguistic community, the Ovimbundu. Apart from a natural fluency in Umbundu, Savimbi is completely at home in several other languages, including Portuguese, English, French and German. Foreign journalists and media men who have interviewed Savimbi have invariably been impressed by his command of so many languages.
Much of the respect which Savimbi commands throughout Africa, and much of his personal popularity among his devoted followers, stems from the rectitude of his personal habits and characteristics. Savimbi has never been an exhibitionist guerrilla leader with a penchant for outrageous uniform and other superficial personal paraphernalia. He is a man of sober habits (in fact he has an aversion to strong alcohol), doesn't smoke and is always impeccably, but not flamboyantly attired. He is also extremely hardworking, rising regularly at 4 a.m. and retiring near midnight.
Savimbi is not only an extremely honest person, but also a strong believer in honour. He abhors corruption and dishonesty and deals drastically with defaulters in these respects.
Not surprisingly considering his missionary upbringing, Savimbi is a deeply religious person, and actively promotes religion among UNITA's ranks. He has, for example, been instrumental in the compilation of a UNITA hymnal. He also often sponsors visits abroad by UNITA priests, and is very knowledgable on the Bible. It is his religious convictions, too, which have no doubt contributed to the success of his family life.
A familiar observation made by people who have come into personal contact with Savimbi is that he is a man of immense charm, polish and courtesy. He is also extremely articulate and has a very agile mind, qualities which immediately come to the fore when he is engaged in conversation or debate.
Impressive as Savimbi's personal qualities and characteristics may be, it is the quite astonishing range of his other attributes that really distinguishes him from his more mundane run-of-the-mill contemporaries in Africa. For Savimbi is not only a guerrilla leader of renown, but he is also a statesman of international repute, a strategist, a skilled politician, a supreme orator and a poet and writer of no little talent.
Savimbi is unquestionably Africa's longest surviving and most experienced guerrilla leader. He has actively campaigned in the field for over 20 years, first against the Portuguese and since 1975 against the Cuban-backed MPLA regime. During that time he estimates that he has walked at least 30 000 km. Savimbi is a leader who likes to lead by example. He insists on sharing the same dangers, hardships and adversities as his troops. As he stated during the early years of the struggle against the Portuguese "A guerrilla who takes with him a camp-bed and tinned foods is incapable of winning the people's confidence and co-operation". It is this attitude, together with his refusal to become dispirited when things go wrong, which has won him such love and admiration from his guerrillas, who refer to him as "Jaguar Negro Das Jagas" (meaning roughly the "Black Jaguar of the Hunt- ers").
Apart from his vast experience at a tactical level of guerrilla operations, Savimbi is also well versed in the wider strategy of guerrilla warfare. During the nineteen-sixties he conferred with various experts on guerrilla warfare such as Vo Nguyen Giap of North Vietnam and Che Guevara, and he has used this intimate knowledge of guerrilla warfare to good effect in turning the tables on the present-day Cubans in Angola. Savimbi is also an avid reader of military history, possessing an incredible capacity for absorbing and remembering dates, places, facts and statistics - an essential capability for any successful military leader.
If Savimbi is well-versed in military matters, he is also an equally adroit politician. It is largely his political skills and charisma which have enabled him to drum up the incredible support which UNITA now enjoys, not only from Savimbi's own Ovimbundu people, but also from all of Angola's major ethnolinguistic communities. Prime among these political skills is Savimbi's extraordinary powers of oratory - he is a brilliant speechmaker with the capacity to sweep up the emotions of his audience and hold their attention for literally hours on end. Another reason for Savimbi's phenomenal political popularity in Angola is the fact that he is a shrewd judge of the ordinary man. J. A. Marcum, the principal Western historian on Angola, has rightly called Savimbi "a crowd pleasing aggregator... with a capacity for telling people what they want to hear".
A facet of the mercurial UNITA leader which is not well known is that he is a poet and writer of considerable talent, having composed poems and written several articles and books on UNITA's struggle for freedom in Angola.
In addition to all this, Savimbi is an international statesman in the truest sense of the word. He has the capacity to think in global and strategic terms and is extremely well informed and knowledgeable on international affairs - chiefly as a result of his travels, his avid reading habits, and the fact that he

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listens to news broadcasts in several languages every day. So much so, that his opinion on various aspects of international affairs and politics is regularly sought after not only in Africa but further afield as well. Mention should be made too, of the fact that Savimbi personally knows and enjoys the respect of the great majority of Black Africa's leaders, however reluctant they might be to admit this in public for political reasons.
All things considered, there can be little doubt that Jonas Savimbi stands out among the leaders of Africa today as a quite exceptional leader in every respect. He is a man of vision, great wisdom, and diversified talents - "truly a man for all seasons". Not only Angola, but the entire Southern African region, will derive immense benefit when the charismatic UNITA leader assumes his rightful place among the foremost leaders of Africa.

[image to right of text: portrait of Savimbi in uniform, captioned 'Savimbi in uniform with the new rank insignia of a general.']

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