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...Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, (MPLA), is now battling a coalition between the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, (FNLA), and the National Union for the total Liberation of Angola, (UNITA...
Seymour said that American and Chinese support for the UNITA-FNLA coalition represented a move toward direct military collaboration between the U.S. and China throughout the globe...
...million Zaïre aid bill. An additional Administration request for $19 million in arms aid, however, faces tougher going. Congress is afraid that such aid to Zaïre will get the U.S. involved in Angola, where the Soviet-aligned M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda is fighting an F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition backed by Zaïre, Zambia, South Africa, several Western powers and China...
...third parties, but as Zaïre receives new supplies of American weapons it will be free to send older Chinese and French materiel to Angola. In any case, the U.S. is already involved in the Angolan arms race; Washington is financing non-American arms deliveries to F.N.L.A. and UNITA through third parties...
...commandos swing back into action, they presumably would go in on the side of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola (capital: Huambo), which was formed by a coalition of Hoiden Roberto's F.N.L.A. and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA. The F.N.L.A. has the open support of a peculiar combination: Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, the U.S. (which funnels money through Zaire for weapons), Western business interests−and China. Savimbi's group, ,meanwhile, has been bankrolled by South Africans and wealthy white Angolans who fear their property will be confiscated by the country...