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It is written: Jackie Onassis will become an ambassador. Bralessness will sag in popularity. Kidnapers will threaten Donny Osmond. Dr. Jonas Salk will find a cure for the common cold.
But clumsy government attempts to lower food prices are not the sole reason for the shortages. When the Portuguese left en masse three years ago, they took with them, among other things, 28,000 of Angola's 30,000 trucks, thus crippling the food distribution system. Much of the richest...
The countercurrent of refugees is a mere trickle compared with the tide of 350,000 that swept into Portugal shortly before Angola became independent in 1975. Nonetheless, the reverse exodus is a sign that life in Angola is returning to some form of normality. According to reports from returnees who...
Three years ago, Neto's Moscow-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) appeared to have won control of the former Portuguese territory in a bloody civil war against two Western-supported independence groups: Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi...
Of itself, the attack on Zaïre was deadly serious. The downfall of President Mobutu Sese Seko?the avowed goal of the secessionists?could have led to another full-scale civil war in that perennially troubled country. But it also raised questions as to how the U.S. and its allies...