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Having received extreme unction from a Catholic priest in Houston, Texas, Matilde asks her friend Ada Luz to ensure that one of the "revolutionary priests from the slums" say mass upon her death. Such wishes, however, conflict with the desires of the communist party, which, under the direction of Lisboa, wants to turn the funeral into a leftist manifestation of power without competition from the Church...
Meanwhile, South Africa's growing involvement in the war appeared to be hampering efforts by the F.N.L.A.-UNITA forces to gain recognition for their own government in Huambo (formerly Nova Lisboa). Although the Organization of African Unity remains neutral in the conflict, three more members -Nigeria, Tanzania and Dahomey (which last week changed its name to the Republic of Benin)-have in the past fortnight recognized the M.P.L.A.'S Luanda government because of South Africa's backing of F.N.L.A.-UNITA. Their action brings to 16 the number of African countries that have recognized the M.P.L.A.; at week...
...F.N.L.A. (backed by Zaire, France and the U.S.) and Jonas Savimbi of UNITA (aided by Portuguese and South African business interests) jointly declared that they had formed the Democratic People's Republic of Angola, with a temporary capital in the southern city of Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa...
...water supply, and authorities called for an emergency airlift of quicklime. Frightened whites formed a massive car and truck convoy, but their road route was deemed so dangerous that Portuguese troops refused to provide an armed escort. Despite the perils, most of the convoy arrived safely in Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where 20,000 white refugees were already waiting for evacuation...
Hardly a night passes without some clash in Luanda's muceques (slums) between the F.N.L.A. and the M.P.L.A. Last week the trouble spread to Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where local sources reported that 30 civilians had been killed in clashes. "Mortar, machine guns, automatic pistols, rifles, hand grenades. Suddenly all the muceques are aflame," says De Carvalho. "Nobody can get in, nobody dares go out. It's war, but they're not fighting it out in the bush like they used to." So far the U.N.I.T.A. has managed to keep out of most...