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Angola: Marxist Regime Under Attack |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--FIVE NATIONS UNDER SIEGE |
| Author: J.A. Parker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,764 Words, 22,810 Characters |
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Since the end of World War II, Soviet-supported insurgencies have been successful in coming to power in many parts of the world - Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, among others.
One of the dramatic changes in recent days has been the growth of dynamic anti-Communist insurgency forces that are challenging the totalitarian governments that have been imposed upon their countries.
In no part of the world has the anti-Communist effort been as effective, or as likely to succeeded, as in Angola. Jonas Savimbi's UNITAS forces now control more than a third of the country. In fact, the Soviet Union has become so concerned about the possibility that its client, the MPLA regime in Luanda, would be overthrown that it has directly involved itself in the milita...
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... domination without a shot being fired. The loss of the sea route around the Cape and the loss of the strategic minerals found in central and southern Africa would be a crippling blow to the economy and defense of the West. That is why I say that UNITA is the key to Angola. Angola is the key to Africa, and Africa is the key to the West. I am not alone in this assessment. The Soviets agree!
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