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...National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), led by Holden Roberto, 52, with strong support from Zaïre, France and reportedly...
Rapacious Neighbors. One measure of the prevailing confusion was uncertainty about the fate of Cabinda, a tiny (2,800 sq. mi.) oil-rich enclave that is geographically disconnected from the rest of Angola and wedged between Zaïre and the Congo. Last week Zaïre announced that Congolese troops had invaded Cabinda. When there was no confirmation from inside Cabinda, suspicions grew that Zaïre was merely preparing a justification for mounting its own invasion. At week's end Zaïre announced it was massing troops on its border with Cabinda, and a full-scale...
...ruins. In 1974 Angola was the world's fourth largest coffee producer (earnings: $231 million) and fifth largest source of diamonds (nearly $100 million). Its iron ore mines brought in $38 million; and the vital east-west Benguela Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought in $1 million a week in transit revenues. Because of the fighting and the flight of white settlers, the railroad is closed. So are the iron mines. The coffee crop, most of it rotting on the bushes, will be one-fifth...
F.N.L.A. Chief Roberto has had his own source of foreign strength. His brother-in-law, Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, provides the F.N.L.A's 33,000 regular troops with arms, armored cars and personnel carriers sent to Zaïre by France and China. Roberto, the most Western-oriented of the Angolan liberation leaders, has also reportedly received CIA backing; it is believed that the Administration's request to Congress for a $35 million increase in military aid to Zaïre is mostly ticketed for the F.N.L.A. Until UNITA's military alliance with...
Moslem Ties. Whatever it amounts to, Ali's purse may eventually prove to be mere mad money. Before he broke camp in Pennsylvania, he was visited by Mandungu Bula Nyati, Foreign Minister of Zaïre. Bula helped promote Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" against Foreman. He now wants to establish Ali as the middleman in all business deals between Zaïre and U.S. firms. Ali's share could reach $100 million a year...