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...announced that it had won the seven-month-old Angolan civil war. In a Luanda interview with the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, President Agostinho Neto held out an olive branch to former members of the two Western-backed opposition forces, the National 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...
Defeat Conceded. Neither Savimbi nor Roberto had any response to Neto's victory claims. But UNITA Foreign Affairs Secretary Jorge Sangumba, in a statement from the Zambian capital of Lusaka, acknowledged that UNITA had been defeated on the field of battle. He vowed to fight on, however, and said that UNITA was already organizing guerrilla-warfare cells throughout southern Angola. But barring a direct confrontation of the M.P.L.A. and its battle-hardened Cubans with some 5,000 South African regulars dug in around the Cunene River hydroelectric complex just inside Angola, large-scale fighting appeared to be over...
...rout began early last week when M.P.L.A. units overran Huambo (pop. 65,000), Angola's second largest city and the provisional capital of the F.N.L.A.-UNITA government. Despite UNITA claims that it had mounted a tough fight, Savimbi's forces had actually evacuated the city several hours before the M.P.L.A. entered it, possibly to avoid civilian casualties in an armed confrontation. A day later, Luanda radio announced the "glorious capture" of the key Atlantic ports of Lobito and Benguela, which with the capture of the east central Angolan town of Luso late in the week gave the M.P.L.A...
...southern column, supported by Soviet T-34 tanks and helicopter gunships and spearheaded by Cubans, then rolled 200 miles beyond Huambo without opposition. The column occupied the major southern city of Sá da Bandeira (renamed Lubango), the Atlantic port of Moçâmedes, and a potential UNITA fallback headquarters at Serpa Pinto, putting them within 150 miles of the South West Africa border and the South African defense line...
...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...