Word: savimbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderate socialist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), headed by Jonas Savimbi, 40, which has been backed by Portuguese business interests...
UNITA, BY CONTRAST, is a much less powerful organization based in the central highlands whose leader, Jonas Savimbi, hopes to mediate between FNLA and MPLA forces. The current situation dictates a tacit alliance with the FNLA to prevent the MPLA from acquiring national hegemony, meshing with the general strategy of foreign anti-MPLA forces whose support the opportunistic Savimbi is unlikely to reject...
...moderate National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), headed by Jonas Savimbi, 40, has only 6,000 poorly armed fighters and has consequently stayed out of the fighting until last week, when it mobilized and fought off M.P.L.A. attacks on its southern Angola strongholds. But UNITA enjoys solid political support, and would probably win a plurality in a free election...
...fact that there are three rival liberation groups. To patch up their differences, Agostinho Neto, 52, head of the Moscow-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), Holden Roberto, 50, leader of the Peking-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), and Jonas Savimbi, 40, head of the moderate National Union for Total Independence of Angola (U.N.I.T.A.), met in Kenya last month. Their agreement to keep peace in Angola-the third truce in the past year-lasted only three weeks...
UNITA has already attracted the support of Angolan whites whose own parties have been banned. It has been allied with both the MPLA and the FNLA at various times; it is even rumored that Savimbi cooperated with the Portugese against the MPLA. UNITA has participated in none of the recent street fighting and is currently allied with the FNLA, but if the tide should turn further in favor of the MPLA, one can assume that Savimbi will flow with it. If the future of Angola is decided by a presidential election, his non-aligned stance and populous tribe could well...