Date: October 17, 1990
Subject: Fiscal 1991 Intelligence Appropriations
Description: Separate vote at the request of Hyde (R-IL), on the Solarz (D-NY) amendment to suspend military aid to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) -- a rebel group fighting the Marxist Angolan government -- if the government of Angola agrees to accept a cease-fire and a political settlement for the conflict in Angola and offers free and fair multiparty elections in which UNITA is free to participate. Before being adopted, the amendment was amended by Miller (R-WA), to prohibit the Angolan government from receiving military aid from the Soviet Union.
Result: Agreed to, 207-206
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