Word: cabinda
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Suicidal Move. For its part, the M.P.L.A. pledged to stop at the Zaïre border, hoping to deter Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko-a strong supporter of the F.N.L.A.-from making a retaliatory move against the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. In any case, the M.P.L.A. has stationed 2,000 of its best troops in Cabinda, helped by some Cubans and armed with Soviet T-54 tanks. Thus it is unlikely that Mobutu could overrun Cabinda even if he tried...
...story opened in 1957, when Gulf began exploring for oil off the coast of Cabinda, a province of Angola, then under Portuguese colonial rule. The Cabinda subsidiary of Gulf began pumping in 1968, eventually taking 150,000 bbl. a day out of 120 wells, and Gulf paid taxes and royalties-most recently $10 per bbl.-to the territorial government of Angola. By 1973, the wells had repaid Gulfs $250 million investment, and since then they have been returning a profit to the Pittsburgh-based company...
...previously accepted royalties and taxes for the Portuguese administration. It turned out that the man was working for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), which is being supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba. Angola became officially independent in November, and the M.P.L.A., which already controlled Cabinda, took over the government in Luanda, and presumably the $116 million. Gulf was due to pay another $95 million on Dec. 31, and a further $30 million in mid-January. Meanwhile, the CIA had already spent or authorized the spending of $33 million to aid UNITA, M.P.L.A.'s anti...
Much of the foreign interest in Angola centers around Cabinda, the former Portuguese enclave north of Angola, which possesses enormous oil reserves...
...coalition is strong enough to win a decisive victory. A long civil war in Angola, however, could involve an increasing number of interested nations. Zaire, for example, might find itself in conflict with the Congo Republic over control of the rich oil deposits in the M.P.L.A.-controlled enclave of Cabinda. Last week there were reports of clashes between units of a Zaire-backed independence front in Cabinda and M.P.L.A. soldiers. Moreover, the Soviet Union seems alarmingly determined to make Angola-by means of the M.P.L.A.-a major Communist enclave in Africa...