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...estimated 4,000 people, mostly blacks, have died in the fighting since the first of the year, more than the number killed during the entire 13-year war of liberation from Portugal. In recent weeks, the fighting has been concentrated in the capital of Luanda, where rival groups are dueling with heavy artillery. Last week it spread throughout the north and central parts of the country to the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda and even to the relatively peaceful south...
Some of the bloodiest fighting took place in and around Malange, the central coffee-growing area 250 miles east of Luanda. Rotting corpses contaminated the city's water supply, and authorities called for an emergency airlift of quicklime. Frightened whites formed a massive car and truck convoy, but their road route was deemed so dangerous that Portuguese troops refused to provide an armed escort. Despite the perils, most of the convoy arrived safely in Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where 20,000 white refugees were already waiting for evacuation...
...seacoast to Lobito and across the borders to South Africa and South West Africa. In the north, more than a half-million black Angolans, who had fled to Zaire during the guerrilla war and returned in anticipation of independence, were cut off from food supplies and threatened with starvation. Luanda was a chaotic scene as people fled the fighting in the slums and suburbs and crowded into the downtown area in search of protection. Thousands of blacks jammed the beaches, waiting for steamers bound for the still tranquil ports in the north, while whites camped at the capital...
...engulfed in a costly and bloody struggle between rival liberation movements. In the past month, the fighting between the Maoist National Front for the Liberation of Angola and the pro-Soviet Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola has claimed an estimated 500 lives in Luanda alone. Whether it wants to or not, Lisbon will have to keep its 25,000 troops in Angola until independence in order to avoid a civil war that could threaten the safety of the 400,000 Portuguese living there. At week's end there were reports from South Africa that Portugal would begin...
...M.P.L.A., was not anxious to get involved. But last week in an emergency meeting, Lisbon's Revolutionary Council agreed to send 2,000 reinforcements to beef up its 24,000 troops still in the territory. At the same tune, Portuguese Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes flew to Luanda to plead for peace...