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...facts of military, political and economic life point toward an M.P.L.A. coalition with UNITA as the most sensible course for Angola. That view is increasingly shared these days by Zambia, Zaire and South Africa, three neighbors of Angola that have all suffered seriously from the war. A look at their problems...
...ZAMBIA: A Victim of Its Principles
...Like Zambia, Zaire has been forced to reappraise its Angolan policy. Landlocked, except for a 23-mile stretch of Atlantic coastline, Zaire shares a 1,600-mile southern border with Angola and is locked in by the M.P.L.A-controlled Cabinda enclave in the north. Although Zaire has not suffered nearly so much economic damage as Zambia, it too has been hit hard by the loss of the Benguela-Lobito outlet for its copper and other exports. Should the F.N.L.A-held city of Santo Antonio do Zaire, at the mouth of the Congo River, fall to the M.P.L.A., the Luanda regime would have...
Internal Subversion. Meanwhile, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, which has been plagued by thousands of refugees, declared a state of emergency. Kaunda, who is sympathetic to the F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition, blamed threats of internal subversion. "They drove colonialism and fascism out the front door," said Kaunda referring to Angola, "only to let a plundering tiger and its cubs in the back door." There was no doubt he meant Russia and Cuba...
Such a deal would probably have the support of moderate leaders like Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda and perhaps even Zaïre's Mobutu, who are worried that an outright M.P.L.A. victory would give the Soviet Union too much influence in Angola and the rest of central Africa. A compromise would also, of course, spare the country more violence and bloodshed. At week's end some estimates of the death toll in the civil war had risen to as high as 100,000-a devastatingly large figure for a country with only 5.5 million people...