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...north, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola seemed virtually finished. The scattered F.N.L.A. forces were withdrawing slowly through dense jungle toward the Zaïre border, blowing up bridges and destroying guns and ammunition that they could not carry with them. At week's end Cuban-led M.P.L.A. troops had pushed the F.N.L.A. to within 50 miles of the Zaïre border. It was apparently only a matter of time before Roberto's army lost control of Santo António do Zaïre, São Salvador and Maquela...
From his sanctuary in Zaïre's capital of Kinshasa, F.N.L.A. Leader Roberto made occasional forays into his shrinking beachhead in Angola. His top lieutenants, however, were already resigned to the prospect of reverting to guerrilla warfare-the minings, ambushes and hit-and-run raids that they used to practice (without much success) against the Portuguese...
...only two short of a majority-have now endorsed the leftist regime headed by Agostinho Neto. So far, no nation has recognized either the F.N.L.A. or its 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...
...provincial capital of Uige (formerly Carmona). Once considered impregnable, the F.N.L.A. stronghold was abandoned without a fight after an M.P.L.A. rocket assault. After the fall of Uige, the M.P.L.A. captured the nearby airfield of Ngage, which had been the F.N.L.A.'s major supply point for arms from neighboring Zaïre. The M.P.L.A. claimed to have seized a string of towns in northern Angola, including Caracassala, Cangala, Samba and Vista Alegre. M.P.L.A. forces were also reported closing in on the seacoast city of Ambriz, the only port held by the F.N.L.A. If that city falls, some foreign intelligence sources...
...acknowledged U.S. effort to support the F.N.L.A.-UNITA alliance, by contrast, has amounted to $32 million, piped mostly through Zaïre. Washington insists that it has absolutely no sanctioned plans to train or recruit Americans or foreigners for service in Angola, despite published rumors to the contrary. In fact, American military men have been seen piloting cargo planes and acting as so-called "observers" in Angola, but their official status could not be determined. The Pentagon insists that if Americans are fighting in Angola, they are mercenaries on their...