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...August, 1975, an ill-armed UNITA had been provoked into engaging into hostilities with MPLA and FNLA after an MPLA attack on the plane carrying UNITA's president. UNITA allied with FNLA, which provided weaponry against the MPLA offensive, but, while it retained control of much of the countryside, UNITA was unable to hold the cities. FNLA, without any significant support among the peasantry of the north, was quickly routed by MPLA's expeditionary force of 12,500 Cuban infantrymen...
...UNITA's administrative capital, Huambo, fell on February 8, 1976, but the war was far from over. Guerrilla bases which had been operation against the Portuguese have been re-activated, and the military has moved back into the bush areas, which are inaccessible to Soviet tanks, and which provide dense forest cover against MPLA bomber attacks. Because the support base of UNITA is essentially the hundreds of deep villages which dot the vast Angolan countryside, the fall of Huambo has had relatively little effect on the functioning of the movement inside the country...
Reconstruction in the more than half of the country still under effective UNITA control is directed primarily by three UNITA-sponsored organizations, the National Association of Labor Unions (SINDACO), the League of Angolan Women (LIMA), and the Angolan Youth League. LIMA comprises more than 10,000 women who had initially been trained for combat during the war against the Portuguese minority regime. Still maintaining a military component, LIMA now has chapters throughout the Angolan countryside and concentrates on political mobilization of the populations in those areas, instructing women in effective techniques of village political organizing. Its Kwacha Institute in Sambo...
...Soviet Union and the U.S. in the very same boat--superpower intrusion. The aid which the Soviet Union gave MPLA during the 14 years of anti-colonial struggle was more than offset by sums dispatched to persuade or blackmail governments and organizations into not recognizing its principal rival, UNITA. Large sums were equally invested in an elaborate propaganda mechanism to discredit its Angolan rival, claiming it nonexistent or otherwise in the pay of one foreign power or another. Attempts at unification of the movements, not just in Angola but in Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa as well, were undermined...
...back firsthand accounts to the black community of what is really going on. Their reports are at total variance with the sophisticated information networks of the American liberal and pro-Soviet support groups in America, who have not only glorified MPLA but also go to great lengths to discredit UNITA. ALSC, in unison with more strictly nationalist groups, claims that the black community has been deceived about the situation in Angola...