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...F.N.L.A. and UNITA are in uneasy alliance against M.P.L.A. The three longstanding Angolan liberation movements have been so violently divided that no one has been able to form a new national government to accept independence. The Organization of African Unity, under the prod of Uganda's Idi Amin, claimed that last-minute efforts had forced a coalition, but no one believed the hollow boast...
...thriving city is now jittery and almost eerily quiet," reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda. "For weeks, residents have been dragooned into daily workouts at a dusty soccer field to practice street-fighting techniques; the sessions include being stomped by instructors to toughen stomach muscles. All Angolan males between 18 and 35 have been declared part of a 'Popular Power Militia.' Meanwhile garbage piles up in the streets, attracting scores of scrawny, scavenging dogs and cats abandoned by their departing owners. Most buses have broken down and roadways are littered with wrecked cars and trucks...
...flimsy charade since they speak Spanish, not Portuguese.) The Portuguese government, though nominally neutral in the struggle, has also leaned toward the M.P.L.A., partly because M.P.L.A. Leader Neto is a longtime friend of Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho, who openly supported the group when he was Portugal's Angolan high commissioner...
Another crucial factor in the Angolan situation is South Africa's survival strategy. The demise of Portuguese colonialism severely threatens the bloc of white settlers states that South Africa has used as a buffer against Black Africa. The Frelimo government in Mozambique has already indicated that it plans to strangle Rhodesia by closing its access to the sea; soon the flow of Mozambican workers to South African mines will cease and Frelimo will allow black revolutionary groups which threaten South Africa directly to operate on its soil. If Angola develops a government of a similar ideological cast, it will further...
...sides which are generally better armed and better trained. In particular it is the approaching battle with the FNLA for Luanda which should determine Angola's fate. The question is whether popular forces relying on revolutionary social institutions can hold off the technically superior armies seeking to prevent the Angolan people from determining their own destiny. National liberation movements have been victorious elsewhere facing less favorable odds; there is no reason to think it could not happen in Angola...