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...Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) delivered some devastating military blows to its opponents last week. With Cuban "freedom fighters" doing more and more of the fighting, the Marxist-oriented regime of Agostinho Neto in Luanda seemed on the verge of eliminating one of its rival factions and at least neutralizing the other...
Military Stalemate. Some South Africans hope that with their help, UNITA can hold the M.P.L.A. to a military stalemate. That in turn might induce M.P.L.A. Leader Agostinho Neto to accept a power-sharing agreement with Savimbi, who is solidly backed by the Ovimbundu, Angola's largest tribal group. In that case, Pretoria could offer to withdraw its forces on condition that the Cubans and Soviets do the same...
...session, Africa's leaders faced the most serious crisis of unity in the O.A.U.'s troubled twelve-year history. Last week Chad, Libya and Niger recognized the M.P.L.A. government; 22 African states-only two short of a majority-have now endorsed the leftist regime headed by Agostinho Neto. So far, no nation has recognized either the F.N.L.A. or its coalition partner, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which are actively backed by the U.S., South Africa and Zaïre. The current chairman of the O.A.U., Idi Amin of Uganda, as well as such...
...came as a response to massive American and NATO military aid to FNLA/UNITA, filtered since last spring through Zaire. The result of American aid has been only to increase MPLA's dependence on the Soviet Union. But the MPLA is by no means a Soviet puppet, and its leader, Agostinho Neto, has explicitly declared his opposition to a Soviet base in Angola...
...Jonas Savimbi appealed for an all-African peace-keeping force under O.A.U. control. The Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), which has already been recognized by 17 of the O.A.U.'s 46 members, rejected such proposals. Moreover, M.P.L.A. Leader Dr. Agostinho Neto threatened not to go to Addis at all unless the O.A.U. recognized him in advance as Angola's sole leader. At week's end, the Soviet Union, which has come under attack for its support of the M.P.L.A., vigorously denied that it was seeking to establish...