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...leaders, including Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who have already recognized the Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). The group was reportedly urging M.P.L.A. President Agostinho Neto to enter into negotiations with the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), which still controls the southern half of the country. Britain and France were also engaged in separate but coordinated soundings in Black Africa and South Africa designed to achieve the same end. In New York, United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was said to be ready...
...talk is cheap." British policymakers said the Soviet involvement in Angola has been the subject of debate in the Politburo for the past three weeks. One faction, led by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, has argued that the M.P.L.A. will have a hard task subduing UNITA, which has the support of some 2 million Ovimbundu, the country's largest tribe. In Whitehall's view, this group is winning over the faction led by Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev by their argument that Moscow is in danger of being sucked into a potential African Viet Nam that...
...facts of military, political and economic life point toward an M.P.L.A. coalition with UNITA as the most sensible course for Angola. That view is increasingly shared these days by Zambia, Zaire and South Africa, three neighbors of Angola that have all suffered seriously from the war. A look at their problems...
Despite its gains on the battlefield, there is still a slight hope that Agostinho Neto's Luanda government might consider some sort of political settlement with UNITA before long. The reasoning...
Internal Subversion. Meanwhile, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, which has been plagued by thousands of refugees, declared a state of emergency. Kaunda, who is sympathetic to the F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition, blamed threats of internal subversion. "They drove colonialism and fascism out the front door," said Kaunda referring to Angola, "only to let a plundering tiger and its cubs in the back door." There was no doubt he meant Russia and Cuba...