Word: bandeira
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...M.P.L.A. 's southern column, supported by Soviet T-34 tanks and helicopter gunships and spearheaded by Cubans, then rolled 200 miles beyond Huambo without opposition. The column occupied the major southern city of Sá da Bandeira (renamed Lubango), the Atlantic port of Moçâmedes, and a potential UNITA fallback headquarters at Serpa Pinto, putting them within 150 miles of the South West Africa border and the South African defense line...
South African assistance to UNITA is on a much smaller scale. There are perhaps 1,000 regular South African soldiers near the fighting fronts and 2,000 to 3,000 further back, based at Sá da Bandeira or near the Cunene River. Nonetheless, their involvement in the civil war is crucial to UNITA's survival. The South Africans man the heavy equipment-principally Panhard armored cars, 130-mm. artillery pieces and Puma helicopters-that provides UNITA with mobility and firepower...
...Parsons, a missionary based at Bongo in central Angola, "was the complete breakdown of all normal civilized life. As long as I live, I shall never forget the sight of the bodies in the streets and the pigs eating them." Added Farmer Geres Miljo, a refugee from Sa da Bandeira: "If you get in the way of the soldiers...
...rerouted one of the highways to pass right through Xingu National Park, where 15 tribes now live. After a storm of protest, the government finally altered the park's boundaries. Three smaller reservations are also planned. But the government's attitude is best expressed by General Oscar Bandeira de Mello, head of FUNAI, the national Indian foundation charged with looking after Indian interests. "We could spend the next five or eight years in this love affair with isolated Indians," says Bandeira de Mello, "and all we would achieve would be to set back the opening of roads like...
...museum and the rich collection it houses are the almost single-handed achievements of one man-Sao Paulo's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand ("Chatô") Bandeira de Mello, a short stout press lord with a considerable resemblance to New York's late Fiorello...