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...After a decade the fighting drags on, with no prospect of victory on either side. TIME's Nairobi bureau chief, James Wilde, recently spent 15 days crisscrossing Angola. His journey took him from the U.S.-operated oil installations in the northern enclave of Cabinda to the capital, Luanda, where he was admitted to the presidential palace three times. His report...
...dressed in a threadbare overcoat and a small boy in rags stand in a sewage-clogged shantytown street just outside Luanda. The man has no right leg, the boy no left. As the boy hammers out a rhythm with a stick on a battered tin can, the man begins to swing his shortened limb in time to the beat. Others join in. Some waggle truncated arms, others hop on withered stumps. Soon nearly 100 cripples are shaking their mutilated bodies to the beat of the weird tin drum...
...will probably not say a word about Gulf today, choosing to ignore the fact that this American oil company pays the communist dictatorship of Angola $2 billion in hard currency annually in taxes and royalties. The Angolan regime is kept in power by 30,000 Soviet-armed Cuban troops. Luanda pays these Soviet proxies with the hard currency provided by Gulf. By its own admission, the Angolan regime would collapse without Gulf Oil. No were does an American business play as important a role in keeping a dictatorship in power. Yet nobody protests Gulf...
...Carter administration strongly urged South Africa to grant the Namibians their independence in exchange for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. Diplomatic progress has been made since then--the most recent negotiations saw the Luanda regime concede the withdrawal of all but 10,000 of the Cubans, who would be stationed more than 1000 miles north of the Namibian border. But by aggravating the Luanda government and thwarting the peace process, South Africa has fabricated a pretext for its colonialist extension of apartheid into Namibia...
Savimbi and his U.S. supporters point out that after five years of talks, none of these goals have been accomplished. Crocker, Savimbi says, "goes to Luanda (Angola's capital), but Luanda does not give him anything. They keep talking because they are aiming at the three years left to President Reagan. If we keep talking for the next three years, the M.P.L.A. will have...