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...side of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola (capital: Huambo), which was formed by a coalition of Hoiden Roberto's F.N.L.A. and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA. The F.N.L.A. has the open support of a peculiar combination: Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, the U.S. (which funnels money through Zaire for weapons), Western business interests−and China. Savimbi's group, ,meanwhile, has been bankrolled by South Africans and wealthy white Angolans who fear their property will be confiscated by the country's other government, the Luanda-based People's Republic of Angola...
F.N.L.A. Chief Roberto has had his own source of foreign strength. His brother-in-law, Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, provides the F.N.L.A's 33,000 regular troops with arms, armored cars and personnel carriers sent to Zaïre by France and China. Roberto, the most Western-oriented of the Angolan liberation leaders, has also reportedly received CIA backing; it is believed that the Administration's request to Congress for a $35 million increase in military aid to Zaïre is mostly ticketed for the F.N.L.A. Until UNITA's military alliance with...
Bitter Controversy. Last week Carter's Foreign Service career appeared shattered, and his actions in helping to free the students were the subject of a bitter controversy in Washington. The reason: Zaïre's touchy President Mobutu Sese Seko, who recently expelled U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton on charges that he was plotting to overthrow the government, had complained heatedly about Carter's having been in direct contact with the rebels. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reviewed the record and according to an associate, flew into a "towering rage...
...Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), with 33,000 regulars, some of them foreign mercenaries, has the greatest military strength. Based in Zaïre, the group is headed by Holden Roberto, 52, a missionary-educated soldier of fortune, and backed by Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, Roberto's brother-in-law. It is known to be supported by Western business interests, but has obtained most of its arms from China...
...concrete walls are usually covered with Zaire's new flag, Black-Hand-Holding-Golden-Torch-in-a-Green-Circle, and pictures of Zaire's president Mobutu Sete Seko. Mobutu has changed the county's name from the Congo to Zaire, instituted the new flag, and changed his own image in an effort to foster nationalism among his people. Mobutu's face appears on every Zaire stamp, and on all currency except for the very smallest coin. On coins minted in 1967, right after he came to power, he's depcited in an army uniform with rows of medals...