Zaire job done, says Morocco
NZPA-Reuter Rabat Morocco said yesterday that the task of its 1500-man force fighting rebels in Zaire’s Shaba province was over. The Moroccan Foreign Minister (Mr Ahmed Laraki), who is visiting Zaire said in a statement reported in Rabat by the official news agency MAP- that the Moroccans’ mission there had ended. The Moroccan contingent was flown to Zaire last month after initial successes
-I by the rebels, who the Zaire j Government says invaded i from Angola with Cuban and (Soviet help Angola. Cuba, ' and the Soviet Union deny jthe charges. Zairean troops and their ! Moroccan allies have (pushed steadily westward in !recent weeks on the line of! the Benguela Railway. I The Zaire news agency’ (A.Z.A.P. reported on Sunday; (that they had captured Di-] jlolo and the town at the! : i point where the railway ! I crosses the border into Ang-! : ola.
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