ANGOLA BOND OF BLOOD PORTUGUESE INFANTRY PATROLS IN NORTHERN ANGOLA PEERED AT 
THE SKIES LAST WEEK AND WAITED PRAYERFULLY FOR THE END OF 
THE RAINS . IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THEIR CAMPAIGN TO 
QUELL A STUBBORN NATIVE REVOLT AGAINST PORTUGUESE RULE, GOVERNMENT FORCES COUNTED 
ON DRY WEATHER TO THROW ARMORED UNITS AND PARATROOPS AGAINST THE 
AFRICAN GUERRILLAS, WHO THROUGHOUT THE RAINY SEASON HAD MERCILESSLY HARASSED THE 
BOGGED-DOWN EUROPEANS . NONETHELESS, GOVERNMENT TROOPS THIS SEASON FACE TOUGHER ODDS 
THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE 2,000 SQ . MI . BATTLE 
ZONE, KNOWN TO THE COLONISTS AS THE ROTTEN TRIANGLE . THE 
REBELS, ADMITTED A PORTUGUESE OFFICER, HAVE " TREMENDOUSLY " IMPROVED THEIR 
TACTICS AND FIREPOWER IN RECENT MONTHS . SHUTTLING FREELY INTO ANGOLA 
FROM CONGOLESE BASES ACROSS THE 400-MILE NORTHERN BORDER, WILY TERRORIST BANDS 
HAVE REPLACED MACHETES AND CANHANGULAS, THEIR CRUDE, HOMEMADE MUZZLE-LOADERS, WITH BELGIAN 
MAUSERS, U.S . CARBINES AND CZECH MACHINE GUNS . AND, UNLIKE 
PORTUGAL'S 50,000-MAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, THEY KNOW EVERY INCH OF THE TERRAIN 
. SAYS A LONGTIME WHITE ADMINISTRATOR : " IT WOULD TAKE 
100,000 MEN TO CLEAN UP THE TRIANGLE . " THE RIVALS 
. THE BLOODY FIGHT FOR ANGOLA IS THE ONLY SHOOTING WAR 
STILL RAGING IN AFRICA . TO WIN IT AND " LIBERATE 
" THE CONTINENT'S BIGGEST COLONIAL TERRITORY, AFRICAN LEADERS IN ADDIS ABABA 
LAST WEEK VOCIFEROUSLY SUPPORTED ALGERIAN PREMIER AHMED BEN BELLA'S CALL TO 
" ESTABLISH A BOND OF BLOOD " WITH THE ANGOLAN NATIONALISTS 
. THE WAR IS A GRIEVOUS BURDEN FOR TINY PORTUGAL, WHICH 
ALREADY HAS WESTERN EUROPE'S LOWEST LIVING STANDARD . BUT STRONGMAN ANTONIO 
DE OLIVEIRA SALAZAR, 74, IS BY NOW TOO DEEPLY COMMITTED TO 
PRESERVATION OF ANGOLA AS A " PROVINCE " OF PORTUGAL TO 
YIELD THE AFRICANS EVEN TOKEN SELF-GOVERNMENT WITHOUT IMPERILING HIS OWN 31-YEAR 
REIGN IN LISBON . DESPITE THE STEADY RISE IN THE GUERRILLAS' 
STRENGTH AND EFFECTIVENESS, SALAZAR'S BEST HOPE OF VICTORY LIES IN THE 
BITTER ENMITY BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS THAT ARE STRUGGLING TO 
WIN ANGOLA'S INDEPENDENCE . AID FROM MULATTOES . THE RIVAL REBEL 
GROUPS, BOTH BASED ACROSS THE BORDER IN THE CONGOLESE CAPITAL OF 
LEOPOLDVILLE, OFTEN SEEM MORE INTENT ON DESTROYING EACH OTHER THAN THE 
PORTUGUESE . THE POPULAR MOVEMENT FOR LIBERATION OF ANGOLA (M.P.L.A.) IS 
LED BY SMOOTH, SORBONNE-EDUCATED MARIO PINTO DE ANDRADE, 34, A MULATTO 
WHOSE BACKING COMES MAINLY FROM OTHER ASSIMILADOS, THE EDUCATED HALF-CASTES WHO 
HAVE LONG HAD FULL PORTUGUESE CITIZENSHIP ; TO WIDEN ITS APPEAL, 
HOWEVER, AN ANGOLAN BLACK, POET AGOSTINHO NETO, WAS RECENTLY MADE M.P.L.A.'S 
NOMINAL LEADER . ANDRADE, WHO, LIKE MOST OF SALAZAR'S FOES, IS 
OFTEN DENOUNCED AS A COMMUNIST, IS AN ASTUTE POLITICIAN AND AN 
ABLE ORGANIZER . HE HAS BUILT A NATIONWIDE FOLLOWING AMONG THE 
MULATTO ELITE WHO WOULD BE THE LOGICAL LEADERS OF INDEPENDENT ANGOLA, 
AND LAST WEEK IN ADDIS ABABA URGED AFRICA'S STATESMEN TO HELP 
LANCE " THE ABSCESS OF RIVALRY " BETWEEN THE TWO MOVEMENTS 
. ANDRADE'S OFFER OF COOPERATION WAS REJECTED BY HIS IMPLACABLE FOE, 
HOLDEN ROBERTO, 38, A MEMBER OF THE FAR-FLUNG BAKONGO TRIBE, WHOSE 
UNION OF ANGOLAN PEOPLES (U.P.A.) HAS POWERFUL SUPPORT FROM THE CONGO'S 
PREMIER CYRILLE ADOULA, ROBERTO'S LONGTIME FRIEND . THE U.P.A . HAS 
RECEIVED AID FROM TUNISIA AS WELL . WITH A TRAINING CAMP 
NEAR THYSVILLE, 40 MILES FROM THE CONGOLESE BORDER, ROBERTO'S GUERRILLAS ARE 
THE ONLY MILITARILY EFFECTIVE REBEL GROUP IN ANGOLA, THOUGH THEY HAVE 
NOT SUCCEEDED IN EXTENDING THE CONFLICT BEYOND THE TRIANGLE, WHERE THE 
BAKONGO AND ALLIED TRIBESMEN ARE DOMINANT . DY'S PUPPETS . " 
NONETHELESS, ROBERTO'S U.P.A . HAS FOUGHT OFF INSURGENTS FROM ANDRADE'S MOVEMENT 
. THIS MONTH, AT A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL IN LEOPOLDVILLE, THREE YOUNG, 
ALGERIAN-TRAINED M.P.L.A . FIGHTERS TOLD A GRIM TALE OF AN AMBUSH 
AT THE LOGE RIVER, DEEP INSIDE THE TRIANGLE, IN WHICH ROBERTO'S 
MEN MASSACRED THE REST OF THEIR 14-MAN GUERRILLA UNIT . THE 
U.P.A . LEADER IS JUST AS FIERCELY DETERMINED TO RESIST INTERVENTION 
FROM ANY OTHER QUARTER . TO ALGERIA'S OFFER OF 10,000 VOLUNTEERS 
TO FIGHT IN ANGOLA, ROBERTO SNAPPED : " WE WILL KILL 
THEM IF THEY SHOW UP . WE ARE NOBODY'S PUPPETS . 
" ROBERTO, WHO PROMISES A " BIG MOVE SOON, " IS 
EXPECTED TO OPEN A SECOND FRONT IN THE RICH, COTTON-GROWING MALANGE 
AREA, WHERE A SAVAGE NATIVE UPRISING WAS STAMPED OUT IN 1961 
. WITH THE CONGO'S KATANGA PROVINCE NOW UNDER LEOPOLDVILLE'S CONTROL, THE 
ANTI-PORTUGUESE REBELS COULD START MOVING IN THROUGH ANGOLA'S " BACK DOOR 
" AS WELL . ROBERTO HAS REASON TO BE CONFIDENT . 
IT TOOK THE FRENCH FIVE YEARS AND 500,000 TROOPS TO ACHIEVE 
EVEN A STALEMATE IN ALGERIA . PORTUGAL IS HARD PRESSED TO 
FIELD ONETENTH AS MANY MEN . BUT LISBON AND LEOPOLDVILLE MAY 
SOON HAVE LITTLE SAY IN THE WAR . THE GOVERNMENTS OF 
EGYPT, GHANA, GUINEA AND ALGERIA LAST WEEK REACHED BROAD AGREEMENT ON 
A PLAN TO FUNNEL EQUAL AID TO MARIO PINTO DE ANDRADE'S 
M.P.L.A . AND HOLDEN ROBERTO'S GROUP . IN ANGOLA THE PORTUGUESE 
THEMSELVES HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY SKEPTICAL OF SALAZAR'S ABILITY TO SUPPRESS THE 
REBELLION . HARD-BITTEN PORTUGUESE COLONISTS, MANY OF WHOM WERE BORN IN 
ANGOLA, HAVE ALREADY ORGANIZED THEIR OWN PARAMILITARY VOLUNTEER CORPS TO FIGHT 
THE GUERRILLAS AND, IF NECESSARY, TO WAGE AN O.A.S.-STYLE CAMPAIGN TO 
PRESERVE WHITE SUPREMACY IN ANGOLA . " THIS IS OUR WAR, 
" VOWED ONE GRIMFACED PLANTATION OWNER LAST WEEK . " WE'LL 
ALL BE KILLED RATHER THAN MOVE OUT . / 