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Like Zambia, Zaire has been forced to reappraise its Angolan policy. Landlocked, except for a 23-mile stretch of Atlantic coastline, Zaire shares a 1,600-mile southern border with Angola and is locked in by the M.P.L.A-controlled Cabinda enclave in the north. Although Zaire has not suffered nearly so much economic damage as Zambia, it too has been hit hard by the loss of the Benguela-Lobito outlet for its copper and other exports. Should the F.N.L.A-held city of Santo Antonio do Zaire, at the mouth of the Congo River, fall to the M.P.L.A., the Luanda regime would have...
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...