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Article: Angola's Twilight Zone; Which Side of the Civil War Is America On?
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- The Washington Post
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- October 4, 1987
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COVERING BOTH SIDES of a civil war, a reporter is always in a
twilight zone. But Angola is a special case of schizophrenia.
After months of alarms by anti-communist rebel forces-and months
of denial by Angola's Marxist government-the great dry season
offensive of 1987 is underway. Depending on how you look at it and
whom you talk to, two radically different pictures of the contending
forces emerge.
On one side is the Marxist government in the capital of
Luanda-either a radical, unstable pawn in the clutches of Cuba and
the Soviet Union, or a latently moderate government struggling to
come to terms with western ideology while beleaguered by a
debilitating war underwritten as part of the ...