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Internal Subversion. Meanwhile, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, which has been plagued by thousands of refugees, declared a state of emergency. Kaunda, who is sympathetic to the F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition, blamed threats of internal subversion. "They drove colonialism and fascism out the front door," said Kaunda referring to Angola, "only to let a plundering tiger and its cubs in the back door." There was no doubt he meant Russia and Cuba...
Such a deal would probably have the support of moderate leaders like Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda and perhaps even Zaïre's Mobutu, who are worried that an outright M.P.L.A. victory would give the Soviet Union too much influence in Angola and the rest of central Africa. A compromise would also, of course, spare the country more violence and bloodshed. At week's end some estimates of the death toll in the civil war had risen to as high as 100,000-a devastatingly large figure for a country with only 5.5 million people...
...halt the fighting. In fact, all they were able to do was demonstrate just how little unity there is in the O.A.U. The delegates not only failed to adopt a resolution on Angola, they could not even agree on a final communique. Concluded Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda: "Our failure to find a solution here confirms that the O.A.U. has no power to shape the destiny of Africa...
...Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which are actively backed by the U.S., South Africa and Zaïre. The current chairman of the O.A.U., Idi Amin of Uganda, as well as such influential African leaders as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, still hope to promote a government of national unity composed of Angola's three warring factions...
...press this year for various moves that seem to be evidence of an approaching end to its policy of apartheid. The role of South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster in bringing the African leaders of Rhodesia together with representatives of Ian Smith's regime prompted Zambia's president, Kenneth Kaunda, to call him a "voice of reason in Southern Africa," and last week South Africa announced that--at some point in the near future--more jobs will be open to blacks, who are now kept out of all skilled jobs in industry...