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...tide of 350,000 that swept into Portugal shortly before Angola became independent in 1975. Nonetheless, the reverse exodus is a sign that life in Angola is returning to some form of normality. According to reports from returnees who have resettled in various parts of the country, Angolan President Agostinho Neto's Cuban-backed government has finally prevailed over two rival revolutionary groups: Hoiden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Apparently willing to forgive and forget, Neto's government...
Meanwhile, at week's end the presidents of three of the front-line states -Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Angola's Agostinho Neto and Mozambique's Samora Machel-convened a meeting in Zambia to talk Kaunda into changing his mind. One of the problems both Zambia and Tanzania will face as a result of Kaunda's decision is that the Tazara railroad will be plunged into financial straits, making it difficult for the two governments to pay back a $450 million Chinese loan used to build the railroad...
...Ndabaningi Sithole, who had joined the interim government last March. Nkomo was acting without the support of his colleague, Mugabe. And Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda was hosting the meeting without the express approval of his fellow "frontline" Presidents (Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana), with whom he has been jointly seeking a Rhodesian settlement...
...sending in his place a quarrelsome delegation that threw the sessions into an occasional uproar by picking fights with neighboring Chad. Nonetheless, 35 leaders of the OAU's 49 member states were on hand, the largest muster in the organization's history. Among them: Angola's Agostinho Neto, attending his first African summit, and Guinea's Sekou Toure, who had not been to one since 1965. All were greeted with effusive embraces by Host Numeiri at Khartoum's airport...
Mobutu promptly blamed the invasion-the second by the Katangese exiles in 14 months-on Angolan President Agostinho Neto, whose Marxist government is propped up by some 20,000 Cuban troops. Mobutu also charged that Cuban advisers had accompanied the raiders and Washington claimed to have proof that Cubans had helped train the Katangese and thus were "responsible" for Shaba II. Cuban President Fidel Castro denied the charge, insisting that he and Neto had both opposed the Katangese raid and had tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent...