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...became the 26th member of the organization to recognize the M.P.L.A. Last month an O.A.U. summit meeting in Addis Ababa was deadlocked 22 to 22 on the question of recognizing the M.P.L.A. It now seems probable that Portugal, which transferred power jointly to the three liberation movements under the Alvor agreement last year, will also recognize Neto's government. At week's end there were predictions that Britain and France were also considering recognition...
...January 1975, the Portuguese met with representatives from the three parties at Alvor to create a transitional government and a timetable for independence. The Alvor accords set November 11 as the date for independence, prescribed elections within nine months, banned all parties except the signatories, established a cease-fire freezing troops in their present locations but permitting liberty of propaganda, and created a transitional government in which each party has equal representation. The three parties and the Portuguese would jointly police Luanda, while each party would contribute 8,000 troops to a national army, to be matched...
...Alvor accords began to collapse as soon as they were signed. The FNLA attacked MPLA muceques in Luanda and arrested MPLA literacy teams in their own territory. The new Portugese administration openly favored its ideological comrades of the MPLA. Street fighting between the MPLA and the FNLA erupted. The real fireworks, however, have been in the last two weeks--the MPLA and the FNLA have battled it out in the muceques of Luanda with mortars and bazookas. Having been driven from the capital, the last FNLA troops are now besieged in an old cliffside fort dangerously close to Angola...
Security was all but impenetrable last week at the luxurious Penina Golf Hotel in the seaside resort of Alvor on southern Portugal's Algarve coast. A 600-man police and army cordon ringed the building; commandos with Alsatian dogs on short leads guarded the surrounding twin golf courses; armed troops set up checkpoints on all roads within a 20-mile radius; a navy frigate lay anchored in the bay, and frogmen patrolled the water. Within this bastion, delegates from the three major liberation movements met for six days with Portuguese government delegates and worked out a plan...
Three Groups. The extraordinary security precautions at Alvor reflected more the Lisbon government's fear of an attack by discontented whites than their uncomfortable awareness that the three Angolan liberation groups had fought one another as often and as intensely as they had fought Portugal for the past 14 years. The three groups...
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