Word: luanda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That troubled, former Portuguese province has until recently strongly opposed U.S. African policy. In turn, Washington has long objected to the large force of Cuban soldiers and civilian workers (about 20,000) in President Agostinho Neto's socialist republic. Neto, reports TIME Correspondent David Wood, who accompanied McGovern to Luanda, hinted to McGovern that the Cubans will leave Angola eventually -but only when South Africa stops raiding the country's bases along the Namibian border...
...SHOULD GO TO THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY ON A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM. The scores of people listed were refugees who had been airlifted to Lisbon from the former Portuguese province in 1975, when civil war threatened their lives and the prospect of a new Marxist government in Luanda threatened their property. The "matter of great importance" was approval of their longstanding applications to return to Angola. In a surprising reverse airlift, 569 refugees have already made the fateful trip back home, while some 1,600 others are awaiting transport via the Angola airline TAAG. A cargo ship...
...Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Apparently willing to forgive and forget, Neto's government hopes that the returnees, many of whom are technicians, professionals and skilled workers, can help rebuild the devastated country. Says Luanda's ambassador to Lisbon, Adriano Sebastiao: "All skilled Angolan workers who want to return will have a job waiting for them. What we need to do now is reactivate the industries that closed down when the Portuguese left...
...return of refugees was worked out by Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes and Angolan President Neto last summer at a summit meeting in Guinea Bissau, another former African province of Lisbon. Until then, relations between Lisbon and Luanda had been virtually nonexistent because of Angola's expropriation of Portuguese property and Portugal's destruction of Angola's food-distribution system. At the meeting, Eanes and Neto agreed to exchange ambassadors, to settle the property issue and arrange for the voluntary return of refugees to Angola. It was later decided that the cost of repatriating the refugees would...
Prospects brightened abruptly last week for a speedy end to the hostilities that have long festered in the mineral-rich territory of Namibia (South West Africa), nestled along the African continent's Atlantic coast between Angola and South Africa. After meetings in the Angolan capital of Luanda, militant Namibian nationalists of the South-West African People's Organization (SWAPO) agreed to go along with a peacemaking formula drawn up by five Western powers. The plan calls for ending the twelve-year-old guerrilla war in the territory by having the United Nations supervise progress toward independence...