Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). They would have "no problem" under his government, he insisted. But he offered virtually no hope for a conciliatory settlement with UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi or the F.N.L.A.'s Holden Roberto. Said Neto: "We regret being forced by the treason perpetrated by [these] leaders to take steps in order to prevent new cases of slaughter, murder and unreasonable destruction of human life...
...years, Zaire Strongman Mobutu Sese Seko championed the third liberation movement involved in the civil war-the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), headed by his friend Holden Roberto. Zaire poured in money and arms to the F.N.L.A. in its struggle against the Portuguese in Angola without receiving any benefit in return. But the F.N.L.A. has been roundly beaten, and Mobutu is having a change of heart. Last week, Mobutu announced that mercenaries headed for the F.N.L.A.-UNITA front would no longer be able to pass through Zaire...
...north, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola seemed virtually finished. The scattered F.N.L.A. forces were withdrawing slowly through dense jungle toward the Zaïre border, blowing up bridges and destroying guns and ammunition that they could not carry with them. At week's end Cuban-led M.P.L.A. troops had pushed the F.N.L.A. to within 50 miles of the Zaïre border. It was apparently only a matter of time before Roberto's army lost control of Santo António do Zaïre, São Salvador and Maquela...
From his sanctuary in Zaïre's capital of Kinshasa, F.N.L.A. Leader Roberto made occasional forays into his shrinking beachhead in Angola. His top lieutenants, however, were already resigned to the prospect of reverting to guerrilla warfare-the minings, ambushes and hit-and-run raids that they used to practice (without much success) against the Portuguese...
...support U.S. objectives in Angola. Zaire has in the past been open to many influences, and it is far from clear that the United States controls its policy. Zaire presently uses North Korean military advisors, for example. Also, President Mobuto of Zaire is the brother-in-law of Holden Roberto, leader of the FNLA, and this certainly is one other possible reason why Zaire has supported the FNLA...