In North Angola

lVYTimes THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, ".7F Refugees Rep L,A.aos in North Angola NYTimes JAN 3 0 1976 5 CONGO .o -,,, --, 4 0 200 By HENRY KAMM .,,..:,,,CAqINDA 0` -`,„ 'N- M iles Special to The New York Times O , e ifi inf.; ha sa KINSHASA, Zaire, Jan. 29— Portuguese • settlers fleeing to i Santo Antonio do Zaire 1 this city report chaotic condi- .11Nia,L tions and a mass exodus from • a small corner of northwestern- e:1;Ir Sao Salvador most Angola that remains in • the hands of the Western-sup- Tomboco ported National Front for the • Liberation of 'Angola. The Portuguese settlers arriv- ANGOLA • ing here are mostly small farm - ;pa Teixeira ers who did not join the mass ' de Sousa flight before Angola gained its independence from Portugal last November because they Alto Hama 3 --"A-eLuso hoped that the. National Front Silva ps tro would protect their farms. Nal,v they are destitute and bit- ter. More than 1,600 of them ljT4. • have reached Kinshasa this Sa da Bandeira • • • month and are being repatriated Serpa Pinto 0 to Portugal. r G ,c 5 , According to their reports, 0) which are given credence in informed diplomatic circles; the offensive by the, combined forces of Cubans and the Pop- SOUTH-WEST AFRICA ular Movement for the Libera- tion of Angola in the last four weeks brought about the com- The New York TimestJan. 30,1976 plete collapse of the defending Refugees from towns with names in panels said their forces. These forces consist of the populations fled both defenders and attackers. National Front, units of Zaire'sj Army, Portuguese settlers and retreat of the defenders was steal their belongings. a small number of mercenaries. accompanied, according to the Large-scale pillaging was re- A few Aniericans, presumably refugees here, by widespread ported also from Si° Salvador, working for the Central Intelli- looting. The Zaire Army units the principal town still in the gence Agency, were refiably re- were said to have been the most National Front's control, until ported to have been in the active element in the looting. the recent arrival of about 30 region, but it is not known The principal town of northern Portuguese and mercenary sol- whether they still are. Angola, the coffee - plantation diers restored some discipline Urgent Appeals Sent center of Uige, was re- among the defenders. parted to have been thoroughly The recent influx of Portu- Meanwhile, urgent appeals sacked before being abandoned guese and mercenaries, report- from the leader of the forces without a fight early this month. edly recruited in Portugal, is, defending southern Angola While few cars, electrical ap- said to have contributed to an against the Popular Movement's pliances, household possessions advance were delivered to all apparent stabilization of the or other valuables remained in situation. No important ad- Western embassies here today. Uige and other abandoned In the letters, the leader, Jonas vances by the Popular Front towns, informed sources report have been reported since its M. Savimbi, urged the United that sizable quantities of mili- capture of Ambrizete about States, Britain, France and other tary supplies and equipment two weeks ago. powers to rush arms to the were left behind. The refugees referred to the forces of the National Union In the days after the fall of for the Total Independence of mercenaries as "the English," Uige and the advance of the which is believed to be more Angola before it is• too late. The Soviet-backed forces along the National Union is allied with coast past the town of Am- an allusion to their common the National Front against the language than to their nation- brizete, the retreating troops ality. They refer to the pil- Soviet-supported Popular Move- reportedly pillaged the towns laging troops as "the Lingala." ment. to which they withdrew and In an intrview, Ruben Chita- that they are still holding. This is to distinguish the Zair- cumbi, representative of the Refugees report that these ean soldiers, whose language is National Union in Kinshasa, towns—Santo Ant6nio do Zaire, Lingala, from the troops of the' described the situation on the Sao Salvador, TombOco and Ma- Angolan National Front, who southern front as "very, very quela do Zombo—have been speak Kikongo. grave." completely sacked and that No Fighting Reported But he denied reports by the their populations have fled, Popular Movement in Luanda from the defenders as much as LUSAKA, Zambia, Jan. 29 that its troops had taken sev- from the attackers. (AP) — Officials here of Na- eral key towns and were in The refugees report that in tional Union for the Total Inde- position to strike at Huambo, Maquela do Zomba, close to pendence of Angola reported the capital •of the National the border of Zaire, Zairean today that there had been no Union-National Front coalition, troops staged a mock attack, significant fighting on the and, the port cities of Lobito, pretending to be forces of the front with Soviet-backed forces and Benguela: Popular Movement, in order to in the Angolan civil war for In the northwest the hasty drive out the population and the fourth straight day. .

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