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Almost as soon as the Soviet-and Cuban-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) claimed military victory in Angola, the rush to recognition was on. Britain, Italy, seven other Western European countries and Canada all followed the lead of France last week in acknowledging M.P.L.A. Leader Agostinho Neto's regime as the legitimate government of Angola. Only 22 members of the Organization of African Unity recognized the M.P.L.A. in January; by week's end the number stood...
After a decisive five-day military blitz, the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) last week triumphantly announced that it had won the seven-month-old Angolan civil war. In a Luanda interview with the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, President Agostinho Neto held out an olive branch to former members of the two Western-backed opposition forces, the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). They would have "no problem" under his government, he insisted. But he offered virtually no hope for a conciliatory...
...negotiated settlement might still be possible. One push came from a group of Black African leaders, including Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who have already recognized the Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). The group was reportedly urging M.P.L.A. President Agostinho Neto to enter into negotiations with the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), which still controls the southern half of the country. Britain and France were also engaged in separate but coordinated soundings in Black Africa and South Africa designed to achieve the same end. In New York...
White Angolans. "But Red Cross officers fear that so massive a retreat to the bush could lead to a new Biafra, with thousands of deaths by starvation. That could be avoided by a political settlement, for which Savimbi is eager. He admitted that he would even accept Agostinho Neto as President of a coalition government, although only if the M.P.L.A. leader gave UNITA an important role. Neto, said Savimbi, is not a true African: if he were, he would understand that the leadership of an African nation requires compromise. 'You never have everybody with you,' he added...
Despite its gains on the battlefield, there is still a slight hope that Agostinho Neto's Luanda government might consider some sort of political settlement with UNITA before long. The reasoning...