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...recognition of the M.P.L.A. as the legitimate government of Angola. The resolution also called on the O.A.U. to aid the M.P.L.A. in its fight against its two Western-backed opponents, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
...Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling to back the national-unity solution as long as the F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition is aided by the hated South Africans...
...found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini the poet; "Il Tempo," the paper of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, the neofascist party) vilified Pasolini the homosexual. Posters proclaimed the martyrdom of a radical poet...
...acknowledged U.S. effort to support the F.N.L.A.-UNITA alliance, by contrast, has amounted to $32 million, piped mostly through Zaïre. Washington insists that it has absolutely no sanctioned plans to train or recruit Americans or foreigners for service in Angola, despite published rumors to the contrary. In fact, American military men have been seen piloting cargo planes and acting as so-called "observers" in Angola, but their official status could not be determined. The Pentagon insists that if Americans are fighting in Angola, they are mercenaries on their...
...light of the weakening position of the F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition, it seemed that the West's best hope would be to reduce Moscow's influence in Angola, or, in the words of one British government official, "to help the M.P.L.A. get the Russians off their back." In a recent interview with Paris' Le Monde, Neto declared that he does not want Angola to become a Russian satellite "just because the Soviet Union supplies us with weapons." One helpful first step would be to persuade the South Africans to withdraw their forces from the conflict. Last week there...