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...which already controlled Cabinda, took over the government in Luanda, and presumably the $116 million. Gulf was due to pay another $95 million on Dec. 31, and a further $30 million in mid-January. Meanwhile, the CIA had already spent or authorized the spending of $33 million to aid UNITA, M.P.L.A.'s anti-Communist rival (Congress, fearful of a new Viet Nam, cut off the aid last month...
First Step. Having already funneled $25 million into Angola and with $8 million for aid still on hand, the Administration sought the additional $37 million to help the anti-Soviet National Front for the Liberation of Angola and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Both are also supported by South Africa...
...FORD administration disclosed last week that it has promised up to $50 million to FNLA and UNITA, the "anti-communist" coalition in Angola. The announcement only made official what's been going on for over a year: the United States is interfering once again in a Third World country's struggle for self-determination, ignoring the lessons of Vietnam. In support of this aid, Kissinger and the State Department have waged a propaganda campaign in the press and in the U.N., justifying Western involvement in Angola as a necessary balance to Soviet aid to the MPLA...
...contrary to the State Department's allegations, the MPLA is by no means a tool of Soviet diplomacy. Unlike FNLA and UNITA--both tribally based organizations--the MPLA's real concerns are for socialist development in Angola. The MPLA has already built broadly based popular institutions in the areas under its control, bringing in its wake education, health care, and participatory democracy...
Meanwhile, South Africa's growing involvement in the war appeared to be hampering efforts by the F.N.L.A.-UNITA forces to gain recognition for their own government in Huambo (formerly Nova Lisboa). Although the Organization of African Unity remains neutral in the conflict, three more members -Nigeria, Tanzania and Dahomey (which last week changed its name to the Republic of Benin)-have in the past fortnight recognized the M.P.L.A.'S Luanda government because of South Africa's backing of F.N.L.A.-UNITA. Their action brings to 16 the number of African countries that have recognized the M.P.L.A.; at week...