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...terrorist, with coat of arms indicating Irish, P.L.O., Argentinian, Angolan-quartered with Lebanese, Italian, American and a few other good lines -bearing a handgun, rifle, submachine gun, knife, grenade and or bomb, with crossed bandoliers and fear rampant...
...deep tragedy for all countries whose security depends on the United States." That was how President Ford described the Senate's vote last week to cut off U.S. military aid to two Angolan factions that have been waging a bloody civil war for months with the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). At stake was only $37 million in aid. But the debate was also the latest in a long series of battles fought between Congress and the Administration, with Congress trying to control not only the making of foreign policy but its execution. Thus...
...allow the Administration any kind of latitude in its foreign operations. Part of the opposition professed to quarrel with the covert nature of U.S. help to Angola. But in the world as it exists, some capacity for secret operations (under due congressional oversight) is essential. Besides, even had Angolan aid been made public from the start...
Like the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, the Angolan civil war has become an arena of major-power rivalry. The Soviet Union has shipped large quantities of arms and supplies to the former Portuguese colony-everything from armored cars to electric generators-and giant Antonov 22s fly every day to Luanda, the capital of the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). Some 3,000 Cubans have been fighting on the leftist side for weeks, and U.S. intelligence now says Havana has increased its force to something close to 5,000 men. In addition, U.S. officials...
Still a third interpretation comes from Iowa Democrat Richard Clark, head of the African subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Clark, who has talked with the leaders of a11 three Angolan factions, believes that they all have much the same goals and that the Russians may just be wasting their money in backing the M.P.L.A. "The history of Soviet intervention in Africa," says Clark, "is one of almost total failure. If the M.P.L.A. wins, the Soviets will be lucky if they can hang on for a year...