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...scale civil war in that perennially troubled country. But it also raised questions as to how the U.S. and its allies should cope with what appears increasingly to be a strong Soviet-Cuban political campaign in black Africa. Three years ago, the Cubans helped the Marxist faction of President Agostinho Neto win a civil war in Angola against two other nationalist groups. The Cubans stayed on to shore up Neto's Popular Movement government and to carry on the fighting against the pesky UNITA guerrillas of Jonas Savimbi in the southern part of the country. Last year the Cubans moved...
...Stockwell tells it, the CIA's aim in Angola was modest at first: merely to slow the progress of Agostinho Neto's pro-Moscow Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which in mid-1975 already controlled twelve of the country's 15 provinces, and see that it had some competition in the pre-independence elections. The CIA decided to shore up two other guerrilla groups, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) under Holden Roberto and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi. But before long...
...Angola. Eventually they joined forces with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), largely because their old enemy, Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, was supporting a rival Angolan guerrilla group, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). Now, apparently, Agostinho Neto's M.P.L.A. government is helping the Katangese to even an old score with Mobutu...
Unorthodox Encounter. At Obasanjo's urging, Young met with Angola's left-wing President Agostinho Neto, whose government the U.S. does not recognize. It was the first meeting between a high-level American official and the Angolan head of state since the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, headed by Neto, defeated the forces backed by the U.S. in the Angolan civil war. Given that background, Young seemed remarkably casual about the unorthodox encounter. The meeting itself was fairly cordial, but the two men disagreed on the subject that had preoccupied Young during most of his trip...
During the long struggle for Angolan independence, Agostinho Neto and his Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) fought a classic campaign of guerrilla warfare against the territory's Portuguese rulers. Neto is now President of Angola, but guerrilla war still goes on-this time directed against his own Marxist government in Luanda. Angola has been admitted into the United Nations as its 146th member-an act of faith in the Neto government that may be slightly premature. The M.P.L.A. forces and the Cuban troops that helped them to win the civil war after the Portuguese pulled...