Word: luanda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular support needed to win; that is why they had to ask for aid in the first place. And they quickly lost the support they had as they massacred and looted their way through Angola. For example, London Times reporters saw mass graves of MPLA supporters in Luanda; in a Unita prison which once held 140 MPLA cadres, only seven were alive when the MPLA took over...
...also the contrasting reports of Huambo and Luanda in The New York Times; also Southern Africa magazine, February...
...movements. And worse still, the two parties found themselves relinquishing more and more control over the decision-making processes. The necessity for aid was not at issue, but the amounts relative to the stage of development of the movements were crucial. Because of the severe repression within Luanda at the outbreak of the armed struggle in 1961, MPLA was not able to build the same foothold within Angola as did simultaneous popular movements in Guinea and Mozambique. But the Soviet Union provided such an efficient propaganda machine that it allowed MPLA to glower under the successes of the other...
...after the April 1974 coup d'etat in Portugal, only one of the three liberation movements actually controlled liberated areas within Angola and only one had opted to direct its operations from inside the country--UNITA. It was only after the April coup that MPLA rebuilt its base in Luanda. Having been an urban, primarily intellectual movement ever since its inception in 1956, MPLA had been forced underground by the early '60s, and was only recently able to re-activate its urban cells...
...Santos hinted that Luanda might guarantee the safety of South Africa's $180 million investment in Angola's Cunene River hydroelectric complex in exchange for recognition...