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...victory of a pro-Soviet regime in Angola would enable Moscow to complete its network of African bases. The small, sleepy fishing village of Baia dos Tigres (Tiger Bay), for instance, has a superb deepwater anchorage; it could readily be developed into a base that would make it easy for Soviet ships to patrol the South Atlantic and, in the event of a confrontation with the West, intercept oil tankers from the Persian Gulf...
...concerned, there is only one real threat to this country, the Soviet Union, and all of their contingency planning and strategy is directed at meeting that threat. As for the Yugoslav Communists, their power depends on maintaining a great distance from the orthodoxy prescribed by the Soviet Party." Western specialists believe that Soviet agents are already involved in what is euphemistically called "destabilization operations" in Yugoslavia. That may explain why 32 so-called Cominformists* were arrested in Yugoslavia in 1974 for having circulated anti-Tito leaflets, holding pro-Soviet Communist meetings and even an illicit Party congress. Thirty-six more...
Shut Down. The State Department was understandably upset: if Gulf had continued the tax and royalty payments through 1976, it might have paid the pro-Soviet faction $500 million. Last week, after several months of talks with State Department officials, Gulf announced that the $125 million due Angola by January would be placed in escrow, earning interest until Angola has a government "recognized by the world community" to which payments can be made. In addition, Gulf said it would shut down its Angola production until the end of the civil war, which it maintained made continued drilling impossible anyway...
...Angola when the war ends, unless its operations there are expropriated, which they may well be. In any case, Gulf officials maintain that they do not wish to support either side in a civil war, and the Ford Administration emphatically does not want the giant multinational to bankroll the pro-Soviet side...
...years, Moscow has been supplying military aid and training to pro-Soviet guerrillas, some of whom formed the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). But some high officials in the Kremlin-and in Cuba as well-are growing increasingly skeptical about the wisdom of that commitment. The muted echoes of the debate that is now under way on the issue were picked up from Western intelligence and Soviet sources last week by TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Their report...