Word: luanda
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Massive Russian aid is turning the tide in Angola's murky three-way civil war, apparently in favor of the Luanda government of the Soviet-backed M.P.L.A. Last week barrages of Cuban-fired 107-mm. and 122-mm. Soviet rockets turned away the Zaïre-based F.N.L.A. forces ten miles north of Luanda, thereby putting the M.P.L.A. capital safely out of range of Chinese 130-mm. artillery manned by white Portuguese Angolans fighting with the F.N.L.A. The M.P.L.A. also recaptured the important road junction of Caxito, northeast of Luanda, and was closing in on the coastal city...
...MPLA which currently holds the Angolan capital, Luanda, and the country's eastern coastal area is backed by the Soviet Union and several thousand Cuban troops...
...considering a $60 million Zaïre aid bill. An additional Administration request for $19 million in arms aid, however, faces tougher going. Congress is afraid that such aid to Zaïre will get the U.S. involved in Angola, where the Soviet-aligned M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda is fighting an F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition backed by Zaïre, Zambia, South Africa, several Western powers and China...
...President Mobutu Sese Seko, the U.S. (which funnels money through Zaire for weapons), Western business interests−and China. Savimbi's group, ,meanwhile, has been bankrolled by South Africans and wealthy white Angolans who fear their property will be confiscated by the country's other government, the Luanda-based People's Republic of Angola. Founded by the Soviet-backed M.P.L.A. of Agostinho Neto, the People's Republic has already been recognized by Moscow, most of the Eastern European bloc and ten African nations, including the nearby Congo Republic...
...opponents of Mobutu, who are fighting for the M.P.L.A. A hundred or more Algerians, Brazilians and North Vietnamese are also involved as advisers, technicians and tacticians. Moscow reportedly has dispatched 400 technicians to train Angolans to use Russian equipment, including light artillery and antiaircraft guns being disgorged daily at Luanda's Craveiro Lopes Airport...