Word: luanda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its gains on the battlefield, there is still a slight hope that Agostinho Neto's Luanda government might consider some sort of political settlement with UNITA before long. The reasoning...
...Russians will be able to extract from the M.P.L.A." For this reason, British policy advisers were privately critical of Kissinger's renewed condemnation of the M.P.L.A. last week. They fear that a cool U.S. posture could play into the hands of radical, Soviet-lining elements in the Luanda government...
...Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) delivered some devastating military blows to its opponents last week. With Cuban "freedom fighters" doing more and more of the fighting, the Marxist-oriented regime of Agostinho Neto in Luanda seemed on the verge of eliminating one of its rival factions and at least neutralizing the other...
...felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling to back the national-unity solution...
...situation there today is better than yesterday." So said President Ford last week during a visit to St. Louis when he was asked about the bloody civil war in Angola. The question was, better for whom? Militarily and diplomatically, the Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) appeared to be on the verge of some notable victories in what may very well be the turning point in the war. On the ground, it delivered a series of telling blows to one rival faction involved in the war, the U.S.-supported National Front...