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During the summer the socialist MPLA drove its nationalist rivals from the capital city of Luanda where its strength among the slumdwellers brought it victory in bloody streetfighting. Now, however, 5000 FNLA soldiers equipped with modern weaponry have descended from the movement's bases on the Zaire border north of the capital. Poised on the outskirts of the city, these legions are awaiting the imminent Portuguese departure as an opportunity to retake Luanda. All attempts to conciliate the three groups, even those of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), have failed. Once the Portuguese army leaves, nothing will prevent full...
...makes no difference which movement is here in Luanda on November 11 since I am not handing over power to the movement which is there. Either we give it to two or three together or we give it to nobody. In that case, I will just get on the plane and leave...
Fetid Shantytown. In Luanda, the capital, some 200,000 returnados have signed up for emergency airlifts to Portugal. The Luanda airport has become a fetid shantytown. American, French, German, British and Portuguese airlines are flying in to remove the refugees, but for many the wait will be weeks...
...Angola continued without respite last week. The death toll is estimated at more than 4,000. For the moment, at least, the Marxist, Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) seems to have the upper hand. It has tightened its control over key urban areas, including Luanda, chasing out wings of the National Front (F.N.L.A.), a group armed by China but supported by Western business interests as well. The M.P.L.A. has also gained ground in southern Angola, traditionally a base for the moderate UNITA, perhaps the most popular but also the weakest militarily of the independence groups...
...most recent outbreak began when the Marxist M.P.L.A. sought to expel the pro-Western F.N.L.A. from the capital. The M.P.L.A. won the round, but the F.N.L.A. has since been massing for a counterattack at Caxito, 35 miles north of the city. Meanwhile, 600 F.N.L.A. troops are holed up in Luanda's nigh impregnable 16th century fort, São Pedro da Barra. In the north, the F.N.L.A. tightened its hold on Malange, and at week's end was moving toward the diamond-producing area of northeastern Angola...