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Covering the civil war in newly independent Angola (see THE WORLD) was a perilous task for TIME'S Salisbury-based stringer (part-time correspondent) Reg Shay and Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs. Shay had to leave the new West African nation last week when a Luanda official decided he might be "a CIA Rhodesian spy." Griggs has covered the independence of nine other former colonies since his first African assignment 16 years ago, so he knew just what to do when soldiers began carrying out predawn identity checks at his hotel. "When the first 4 a.m. knock came...
...only outsiders had stayed out," observed a Portuguese businessman in the Angolan capital of Luanda, "this might have remained a low-level civil war in the bush. But now everybody's in, and the thing is beyond solution." That seemed to be an accurate appraisal last week, as Angola was engulfed in civil...
...Communist countries are desperately trying to shore up the M.P.L.A. government.* With the Portuguese presence at an end, truckloads of unarmed M.P.L.A. troops rolled into Luanda's port area unchallenged and emerged bristling with automatic rifles and grenade launchers. "We have no problem with arms and ammunition," explained one military commander. "Tactics and training are what we lack but we are overcoming that with the help of friends...
...week's end there were many unconfirmed reports from African capitals that the Soviets had moved as many as 400 military personnel and technicians, as well as some 200 tanks, into Luanda to aid the M.P.L.A. The Russians will reportedly man tanks and supply crews for MIG-21 planes. If these stories are true, the U.S. can be expected to protest vigorously. Earlier last week Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned strongly and publicly against "extracontinental" interference in Angola, singling out the Soviets and Cubans as prime offenders...
...huge supplies of Russian arms continue to pour into Luanda, the M.P.L.A. admitted that 1,200 Cuban combat troops had arrived. They will reinforce an estimated 1,000 soldiers and 700 advisers Cuba had previously sent to Neto. The M.P.L.A.'S main problem, reports Griggs, seems to be poor tactics and troop discipline. Cuban advisers assigned to the southern front complain that they have been stranded in unfamiliar territory when M.P.L.A. units broke and ran under fire...