Taste of freedom for 55 hostages
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg A group of 45 Czechoslovak and 10 Portuguese hostages, mainly women and children, arrived in South Africa yesterday after being held captive for more than three months in Angola by anti-Government guerrillas. The group was flown to Johannesburg’s Jan Smuts airport from an undisclosed place in southern Angola in a plane chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross. A Red Cross official who accompanied them said that
about 20 Czechoslovaks and 10 Portuguese were left behind. In Geneva, Czech officials said earlier tha the Czechoslovakian contingent on the plane comprised 21 children, 17 women and seven men. The Red Cross headquarters in Geneva said that there were 10 Portuguese on board — four men, one woman and five children. The rebel United Front for the Total Independence of Angola (U.N.1.T.A.) issued a statement in Lisbon saying that some male hostages were being released for
health reasons along with the women and children. Other men, whose good health had been verified by the Red Cross, were being held for exchange for U.N.I.T.A. members jailed in Angola and, if Britain wished, for seven British mercenaries also imprisoned by the Angolan Government. South African Government officials said that they had been told by the Red Cross that the Czechoslovaks would be flown out to Kinshasa to meet Czechoslovak diplomats.
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Press, 2 July 1983, Page 10
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