Word: cabinda
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...South Africa and the U.S. After a decade the fighting drags on, with no prospect of victory on either side. TIME's Nairobi bureau chief, James Wilde, recently spent 15 days crisscrossing Angola. His journey took him from the U.S.-operated oil installations in the northern enclave of Cabinda to the capital, Luanda, where he was admitted to the presidential palace three times. His report...
Savimbi also argues that U.S. aid of another sort helps bolster the current Angolan regime. The M.P.L.A. government earns $2 billion a year in oil revenues from Chevron Corp. through Chevron's subsidiary Gulf Corp., which owns a 49% interest in Angola's Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Says one UNITA leader: "Gulf Oil has been subsidizing the Soviet and Cuban occupation of Angola." Although the U.S. has long supported and encouraged the American industrial presence in Angola, Crocker last week issued a warning to U.S. companies: "They are in the middle of a war zone. They should be thinking about...