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...image apparently lives on. Since the start of Angola's civil war, hundreds of men from Britain, France, Portugal, South Africa and the U.S. have signed on to serve with the pro-Western forces. As of last week, perhaps 300 mercenaries were fighting with the hard-pressed F.N.L.A. forces in northern Angola, and an estimated 1,000 more, plus 2,500 Portuguese-Angolan volunteers, with UNITA troops in the south. But the romantic dream of glory that many of them had before going to Angola is not reality-at least according to the bitter tales told by British "meres...
President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger have bitterly attacked Congress' ban on funds for the pro-Western forces in Angola. The administration argues that the nation's foreign policy may be so weakened by arbitrary congressional interference that the U.S. could lose the ability to inspire trust-and, when necessary, fear-in the rest of the world. "It cannot be in the interests of the United States," said Kissinger at a press conference last week, "to create the impression that in times of crisis, either threats or promises of the United States may not mean anything because...
...disappear." His rule remains personal and absolute. When he spent a month recovering from hemorrhoid surgery last January, the government ground almost to a halt. Despite the tension with neighboring Algeria, Morocco has strong ties with most other Arab nations; except for issues involving Israel, it is basically pro-Western in foreign policy and open toward European and American investments. Since 1973 Hassan has emulated his oil-rich Arab allies by pushing up the price of phosphate rock from $14 to $68 a ton. Morocco controls 60% of world trade in the vital fertilizer ingredient even without the Sahara deposits...
What South Africa really wants, for both political and economic reasons, is the partition of Angola. In the absence of a strong pro-Western regime, this arrangement is perfectly agreeable to Zaire and the U.S. If Angola is divided into spheres of influence it can be plundered at will and poses no threat to the regional status quo. This is in effect the situation now--each of the three movements runs its sector as if it were a separate country...
Since the first of the year, the three leaders have held three full-scale peace conferences. Each time, they embraced and agreed to stop fighting. Each time, the bloodshed resumed afterward. The most recent outbreak began when the Marxist M.P.L.A. sought to expel the pro-Western F.N.L.A. from the capital. The M.P.L.A. won the round, but the F.N.L.A. has since been massing for a counterattack at Caxito, 35 miles north of the city. Meanwhile, 600 F.N.L.A. troops are holed up in Luanda's nigh impregnable 16th century fort, São Pedro da Barra. In the north, the F.N.L.A...