The truce between government troops and UNITA rebels, which followed a UN-brokered treaty signed Sunday in Lusaka, Zambia, took effect at 1 P.M. Both state radio and the rebels' Vorgan station announced the cease-fire in their 1 P.M. news bulletins but neither broadcast appeals for their troops to hold fire, as in past truces.
Sunday's treaty foresees a disengagement of armies and a power-sharing deal for Angola, rent by civil war since gaining independence from Portugal in 1975.
But as the deadline came and went, both sides swapped allegations of truce violations. The government claimed UNITA attacks in the north and east. Vorgan, seconds after announcing the truce, claimed government troops were bombardinga key military airstrip.
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