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...single movement like Frelimo in Mozambique capable of assuming power in Angola. Instead, three armed factions battle for the country: the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), and the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
...UNITA, BY CONTRAST, is a much less powerful organization based in the central highlands whose leader, Jonas Savimbi, hopes to mediate between FNLA and MPLA forces. The current situation dictates a tacit alliance with the FNLA to prevent the MPLA from acquiring national hegemony, meshing with the general strategy of foreign anti-MPLA forces whose support the opportunistic Savimbi is unlikely to reject...
...upper hand. It has tightened its control over key urban areas, including Luanda, chasing out wings of the National Front (F.N.L.A.), a group armed by China but supported by Western business interests as well. The M.P.L.A. has also gained ground in southern Angola, traditionally a base for the moderate UNITA, perhaps the most popular but also the weakest militarily of the independence groups. The M.P.L.A.'S success in the south has prompted speculation that it may be considering a merger with UNITA. The Lisbon government would probably welcome a pact between the two. It would allow Portugal to hand...
...moderate National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), headed by Jonas Savimbi, 40, has only 6,000 poorly armed fighters and has consequently stayed out of the fighting until last week, when it mobilized and fought off M.P.L.A. attacks on its southern Angola strongholds. But UNITA enjoys solid political support, and would probably win a plurality in a free election...
...Novelli won the privilege of supervising the selection of a new mayor from among them for Italy's second largest (after Milan) industrial city. The outcome was preordained. When all 80 votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita, announced: "In keeping with the requirement for an absolute majority, I hereby proclaim the elected mayor of the city of Turin to be Councilman Diego Novelli." Thus amid pomp and glitter Novelli became the Piedmont city's first Communist mayor in 25 years, and Turin became the biggest city...