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...effort to find a way to halt the fighting. In fact, all they were able to do was demonstrate just how little unity there is in the O.A.U. The delegates not only failed to adopt a resolution on Angola, they could not even agree on a final communique. Concluded Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda: "Our failure to find a solution here confirms that the O.A.U. has no power to shape the destiny of Africa...
...Nigerian proposal was opposed by 22 other nations, among them Zaire, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. In what was quickly labeled a "national unity" resolution, presented by Senegalese President Leopold Senghor, this group urged that all fighting in Angola cease immediately and a government of national unity be formed. The resolution further called for an end to all outside military aid to Angola, a demand that was aimed at both the Soviet and Cuban support for the M.P.L.A. and the help the other two factions have been receiving from Zaire, South Africa and the West...
...been hurt by a drop in the world price of its chief export, copper, recently fell months behind in paying off the $1 billion it owes to U.S. private banks and has only lately caught up with the help of the International Monetary Fund. Other copper exporters, including Zambia, Chile and Peru, might seek extensions of their loans. Bankers emphasize that a stretchout of repayment schedules by no means implies that the loans will eventually go into default, but the banks will have to wait to get their money back...
...coalition partner, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which are actively backed by the U.S., South Africa and Zaïre. The current chairman of the O.A.U., Idi Amin of Uganda, as well as such influential African leaders as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, still hope to promote a government of national unity composed of Angola's three warring factions...
...that he does not want Angola to become a Russian satellite "just because the Soviet Union supplies us with weapons." One helpful first step would be to persuade the South Africans to withdraw their forces from the conflict. Last week there were renewed efforts by the U.S., Britain and Zambia to do just that. Once the Russians' propaganda card has been removed, opinion in the O.A.U. might be mobilized to support the withdrawal of all foreign forces-including the Russians and the Cubans. And although President Ford ruled out withholding American grain shipments as a means of pressuring...