R
ting Angola Group
Threatens Terror A bread
NYTimes
By HENRY KAMM
Special to The New York Mel
JAN 1 5 1976
KINSHASA, Zaire, Jan. 14—A in a
24-membei revolutionary
leader of one of the two groups counc
il with the National Union
fighting Soviet-supported forces for the
Total Independence of
in Angola said today that Angola.
Both groups have
the situation was deteriorating West
ern backing.
steadily and was so bad that Mr.
Tuba was interviewed
his group might have to use
at National Front headquarters
the tactics of international ter- here
after having reviewed the
rbrisrn to keep its cause alive. situation
with Holden Roberto,
He said that Soviet-aided the group's president. Ever
ytroops had captured the port thing that he said,
and the
of Ambriz two days ago and views of Mr. Roberto
as he
were pursuing forces of his represented them, indic
ated
group toward Zaire.
that the leadership had almost
This account of the fighting no hope of stemming the adin Angolanr as gime qier.e by vance' of the Popularikovement
Paulo Tillie keinember of the fiat.10,,VieNtion, e
-'
political bitreau of the National which has Sovi
et and oiban
Front-for the 'Liberation of An- support.
gola.'He 'is one of .12 members Northern Angola had been
of the front who are linked Continued
on Page 10, Column 3
Continued From Page 1, Col. 7
air-dropped on the town of tal principle
GABON
%,C7C) 0 Miles 300
of a war of liberaQuifangondo, about 12 miles tion. Thes
the National Front's base of
e are necessary sacriZAIRE
from
Luan
da,
the capital of fices."
CA,B1N.DA. Brazzaville
operation against Portugal,
the Popular Movement, to at- Implicit in
which formally withdrew from
Mr. Tuba's resKinsnasa
tack
a Cuban unit based there. marks, which he
control of Angola on Nov. 11
He
said the purpose was to resented the saidsalso repSpeaking of a possible shift
of Mr.
call the attention of the African Roberto, was view
to terrorist tactics, Mr. Tuba
a feeling that
leaders, then gathering in Addis foreign assistance
said:
to the NaAbaba, to the guerrilla warfare tional Front was so smal
"We'll do what the Palestil compoten
tial
of
the
Natio
nal
Front
pared
with that given the Popu.
nians are doing. If we can't
He
lar
said
Movement that the situation
the group had withdefeat the Russians and Cubans
drawn into the bush after cap- was desperate. He said:
who invaded our country, we'll
turing some Soviet-made equip- "The United States Cong
use Palestinian tactics until the
ment and had not been heard talks about not getting involress.
world finds 'a just solution.
ved
from since.
"Congo-Brazzaville and Guibecause of the Vietman experMr. Tuba said the aim of ience. The United States has
The New York TImes/Jan. 15, 1976
nea and others have embassies
abroad. They have airlines. The Ambriz and Ambrizete re- such missions and of the ter- done it in Vietnam, now the
Russians have embassies in portedly fell as Luanda rorism he advocated was "to Soviet Union is doing it in
convince our friends to give us Angola."
Africa. We can find money troops push
ed northward. the mean
to pay foreign commandos to.
s to oppose the for- He said he hoped to go to
eign invasion." He said the first the .United States soon to try
attack them."
to
reorg
anize for the kind of terrorist strikes would be to persuade mem
Congo and Guinea are leaders
bers of Conof the radical bloc in the Orga- guerrilla warfare the National "right in Luanda."
gress to vote for military assisnization of African Unity sup- Front carried out against Portu- "We are prepared to plastic tance to the. National Front.
porting the Popular Movement. gal.
movies, markets and public He form
represented the
The Soviet Union is the princi- Mr. Tuba said that many places," Mr. Tuba said, refer- National erly
Fron
pal supplier of arms and equip- of the half million Angolans ring to plastic explosives. the United Natiot as observer at
ns.
ment to the Popular Movement who had returned from exile "Plastic is easy to buy in Eu- Mr.
Tuba said that his moveand Cuban farces are fighting in Zaire after the Portuguese rope."
coup in 1974 were once more Responding to a question ment was prepared to accept
on its behalf.
assistance from anybody to
about civilian victims of such fightMr. Tuba, a political science fleeing here.
what he called, the foreign
graduate of New York Universi- Mr. Tuba disclosed also that terrorism, he declared:
invasion. But when asked about
ty, said Mr. Roberto left here last Friday a "suicide group" "In a war of liberation peopl help
for. Angola today, after return- of perhaps nine men had been have to die. This is a fundamen-e said from Seuth Africa,: he
that the National Front
ing yesterday from the special
meeting of the Organization
of African Unity in Addis Ababa, "to see if he can save
even one city."
had never requested it and did wising
He said that Ambriz had
National Front military
not intend to do so because of ileaderd
been evacuated after National
here in Kinshata. He
its
clear
oppo
sition
to South `did not specify their natio
Front troops had blawn up
naliAfric
a.
.
whatever equipment they could
ty. Earlier he had noted that
He said, however, that in his movement had a num
not take with them, but withber
southern Angola the combined of Portuguese "sym
out a fight. He said the port
pathizers."
forces of the National Union
town had first been subjected
and National Front were "coex- Advancing Column Repo• rted
to shelling by SoViet tanks
isting" with South African LUSO, Angola, Jan. 14 (Reumanned by Cubans, then to
troops. He said he did, not ters)—A commander of prostrafing from helicopter gunexpect the South. Africans to Western National Union troops
ships and subsequently to conwithdraw.
said here today that an ar3
centrated rocket attack, with
Mr. Tuba said that the Na- mored force including Cubans
heavy casualties • among the
tional Front had requested the and some Soviet advisers was
population.
United States to supply arms. advancing on this central Ango"They are heading toward
or money and that such aid lan rail center.
Ambrizete and then to Santo
has reached the movement. He The cemmander, Col. ghmel
Antonio do Zaire," Mr. Tuba
said it had never been given Chiwali, said the column Adsaid, referring to towns northdirectly by Washington but had vancing from the north consistward on the coastal road.
perhaps been channeled ed' of 1,000 Popular Moverrient
[Later reports from sources in
through African countries from soldiers, 500 Cubans and some
Johannesburg, South Africa,
which the National Front had Russians.
that support the National Front
He expressed confidence that
equestecr•aid.
said Ambrizete had also fallen,
He named' Zaire, Tunisia, his men' would be able 'to repel ,
United Press International reCameroon and Ivory Coast as the column.
ported.]
•
countries that had assisted his Correspondents today visited'
Indicating how little hope
what
were described- as Nationoroup, but named none as an
the National Front has of holdal •Union front lines about-30
group; channel.
ing a line anywhere in northern
miles north of Luso.
Angola, he disclosed that its
Mr. Tuba said that no agents To the-e
ast of Luso, National
forces had blown up the bridges
of the Central Intelligence Unio
to slaw the Popular MoveAgency were• training , or work- adva n forces have reportedly
ment's advance. He said Mr.
ing with National Front troops railronced along the Benguela
Roberto and the rest of the
in Angola.. But he said that milesad to within about nine
of Teixeira de Sousa,
leadership felt that their best
"friends of goodwill" were ad- near the.
Zaire border.
chance was to evacuate soldiers
and the civilian population and