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...Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) delivered some devastating military blows to its opponents last week. With Cuban "freedom fighters" doing more and more of the fighting, the Marxist-oriented regime of Agostinho Neto in Luanda seemed on the verge of eliminating one of its rival factions and at least neutralizing the other...
...session, Africa's leaders faced the most serious crisis of unity in the O.A.U.'s troubled twelve-year history. Last week Chad, Libya and Niger recognized the M.P.L.A. government; 22 African states-only two short of a majority-have now endorsed the leftist regime headed by Agostinho Neto. So far, no nation has recognized either the F.N.L.A. or its coalition partner, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which are actively backed by the U.S., South Africa and Zaïre. The current chairman of the O.A.U., Idi Amin of Uganda, as well as such...
Against this backdrop, there were hints that Neto might be prepared to offer UNlTA's Joseph Savimbi a share in a two-way coalition government. Neto gets along well with Savimbi, and such a move might avoid further bloodshed, since UNITA commands enough tribal support in the south to deny the M.P.L.A. outright victory for some months and possibly longer...
...UNITA coalition, it seemed that the West's best hope would be to reduce Moscow's influence in Angola, or, in the words of one British government official, "to help the M.P.L.A. get the Russians off their back." In a recent interview with Paris' Le Monde, Neto declared that he does not want Angola to become a Russian satellite "just because the Soviet Union supplies us with weapons." One helpful first step would be to persuade the South Africans to withdraw their forces from the conflict. Last week there were renewed efforts by the U.S., Britain...
...response to massive American and NATO military aid to FNLA/UNITA, filtered since last spring through Zaire. The result of American aid has been only to increase MPLA's dependence on the Soviet Union. But the MPLA is by no means a Soviet puppet, and its leader, Agostinho Neto, has explicitly declared his opposition to a Soviet base in Angola...