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During the long struggle for Angolan independence, Agostinho Neto and his Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) fought a classic campaign of guerrilla warfare against the territory's Portuguese rulers. Neto is now President of Angola, but guerrilla war still goes on-this time directed against his own Marxist government in Luanda. Angola has been admitted into the United Nations as its 146th member-an act of faith in the Neto government that may be slightly premature. The M.P.L.A. forces and the Cuban troops that helped them to win the civil war after the Portuguese pulled...
...abstention, but it should have gone further and moved for admission. If the U.N. is to be a viable force in international relations, it must include every independent nation, regardless of political alliances. The U.S. refusal to recognize Angola's sovereignty must be construed as an insult to President Neto and the members of the Popular Movement who fought for Angola's freedom, and is unlikely to improve relations between the U.S. and the third world nations...
Last February the Moscow-backed President Agostinho Neto, 54, finally managed to prevail over his Western-backed rivals with the help of $300 million in Soviet-supplied arms and 12,000 Cuban soldiers. Neto, now the hardest-lining of the front-line five, continues to reject a peaceful solution for Rhodesia and harbors 3,000 SWAPO guerrillas across his 800-mile common border with Namibia...
...core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...
...contenders. A publicity-shy former schoolteacher, he has influence among the 8,000 or so freedom fighters of the Mozambique-based Zimbabwe People's Army (ZIPA), spearhead of the Rhodesian guerrilla movement. Mugabe has the strong backing of Mozambique's Machel and Angola's Neto because he vows to continue the war until majority rule actually becomes fact...