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...that time, the outcome may well have been decided on the battlefield-most probably in a victory by the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). After routing F.N.L.A. forces in the north, the M.P.L.A., led by Cubans and backed by Soviet tanks and advisers, launched a three-pronged assault in southern Angola. Last week the attack force was reported within 100 miles or less of its objectives: Lobito, Angola's biggest port; Huambo, provisional capital of the F.N.L.A.-UNITA government; and Silva Pôrto, UNlTA's headquarters...
...civil war that has transformed Lebanon into a scarred battlefield took a sudden and risky turn for the worse last week. Two Lebanese air force Hawker-Hunter fighter jets strafed and rocketed Moslem and Palestinian troops that were besieging Damur, a rightist-held town a few miles south of Beirut International Airport. The attack represented the first time that Lebanese armed forces had plunged openly into major combat since the shooting began nine months...
Neutral Host. The conference was deadlocked from its opening moments. On one side were the 22 nations that back the Soviet-sponsored Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), which has been receiving massive arms aid from the U.S.S.R. and is being helped on the battlefield by some 7,500 Cubans. The M.P.L.A.'S supporters at the O.A.U. included all the former Portuguese African colonies, as well as such leftist states as Guinea, Somalia and Algeria; they endorsed a resolution proposed by Nigeria's strongman, General Murtala Mohammed, urging the recognition of the M.P.L.A. as the legitimate...
...large, those assessments have been borne out on the battlefield. Al though UNITA troops are given good marks for their fighting ability, Savimbi's administration and logistics are a shambles. UNITA battle claims are of ten embarrassing when not ludicrous. As for the F.N.L.A., its military is so oblivious of civilian suffering that starvation has become widespread. One mercenary who has been to Ambriz, F.N.L.A. Leader Holden Roberto's operations capital of the moment, reported that civilians were evacuated from the town and then simply dumped in the bush and left to their own devices...
...conflict between two worlds-one rich, one poor-is developing, and the battlefield is the globe itself. On one side are two dozen or so industrialized, non-Communist states whose 750 million citizens consume most of the world's resources, produce most of its manufactured goods and enjoy history's highest standard of living. Demanding an ever larger share of that wealth are about 100 underdeveloped poor states with 2 billion people-millions of whom exist in the shadow of death by starvation or disease. So far, the conflict has been limited to economic pressures and proposals...