The sticker carries the UNITA symbol and the slogan ' Socialism-Negritude-Democracy-Non-Alignment ' As the war began to include both military and diplomatic components, Johns and leading U. S. conservatives urged Savimbi to make a ceasefire contingent on the MPLA's agreement to " free and fair elections.

In the early 1970s, the MPLA's guerrilla activities were more and more reduced, due to the " counter-insurgency " campaigns of the Portuguese military.

A ceasefire ultimately was negotiated and MPLA leader José Eduardo dos Santos and the MPLA's Central Committee rejected its Marxist past and agreed to Savimbi's demand for free and fair elections, though UNITA and its supporters viewed the promises skeptically, especially because the MPLA's relations with the former Soviet Union remained strong.

The MPLA's president, Agostinho Neto, was the son of a Mbundu Methodist pastor and a graduate of a Portuguese medical school.

In 1970 he returned to Angola, which was still a Portuguese territory known as the Overseas Province of Angola, and joined the MPLA's guerrilla forces EPLA ( Exército Para a Libertação de Angola ) later to be known as FAPLA ( Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola ), a branch of the MPLA, becoming a radio transmitter in the second political-military region of the MPLA in Cabinda Province.

At the MPLA's First Congress in December 1977, Eduardo dos Santos was re-elected to the Central Committee and Politburo.

Piadade was the 14th candidate on the MPLA's national list in the September 2008 parliamentary election.

His brother, Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, was made the MPLA's first honorary President.

Van-Dúnem was the 71st candidate on the MPLA's national list in the September 2008 parliamentary election.

The Mbundu were the MPLA's strongest supporters when the movement first formed in 1956.

Until 1969, Pepetela, Abranches, and other MPLA members worked together to document Angolan culture and society and publicize the MPLA's struggle.

After the move to Brazzaville, Pepetela became more active in the MPLA's armed resistance against the Portuguese in the Cabinda region of Angola and on the Eastern Front.

The MPLA's core base includes the Mbundu ethnic group and the educated intelligentsia of the capital city, Luanda.

" Rudolph Rummel, an analyst of political killings, estimated that between 100, 000 and 200, 000 Angolans died in the MPLA's democide between 1975 and 1987.

While China did briefly support the MPLA, it actively supported the MPLA's enemies, the FNLA and later UNITA, during the war for independence and the civil war.

* Inge Brinkmann, War, Witches and Traitors: Cases from the MPLA's Eastern Front in Angola ( 1966-1975 ), Journal of African History, 44, 2003, pp. 303 – 325

He served as the MPLA's representative to Yugoslavia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the People's Republic of China before being elected to the Central Committee and Politburo of the MPLA in Moxico ( province ) in September 1974.

In June 1975, dos Santos became coordinator of the MPLA's Department of Foreign Affairs ; he also coordinated the MPLA's Department of Health at this time.

In May 1966 Daniel Chipenda, then a member of MPLA, established the Eastern Front, significantly expanding the MPLA's reach in Angola.

On the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal, Zaire, in a bid to install a pro-Kinshasa government and thwart the MPLA's drive for power, deployed armored car units, paratroops, and three battalions to Angola.

The MPLA had a General Headquarters controlled by a Central Military Committee which consisted of the politburo and some of the MPLA's regimental commanders and political officers.

Emperor Romanos IV was himself taken prisoner and conducted into the presence of Alp Arslan, who treated him with generosity, and, terms of peace having been agreed to, dismissed him, loaded with presents and respectfully attended by a military guard.

The treaty forbids < cite > any measures of a military nature </ cite >, but not the presence of military personnel.

Following the IRA ceasefires between 1994 and 1996 and since 1997, demilitarisation has taken place as part of the peace process, reducing the military presence from 30, 000 to 5, 000 troops.

The speech was also seen as a stand against the Soviet Union because it stated the firm intention of the United States to maintain a military presence in Europe indefinitely.

Its historic ties, its long military presence as well as its economic influence have also given it a political influence.

Bozizé has strengthened military presence along the border and deployed an amphibious force patrolling the Ubangi river.

In the 1970s and 1980s Cuba stepped up its military presence abroad, especially in Africa.

Until police determined this was an isolated incident unrelated to the presence of the national guard, military bases statewide were put on high alert and government buildings were briefly placed under lock-down conditions.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

In the early 1960s, the UK was withdrawing its military presence from the Indian Ocean area, not including the base at RAF Gan to the north of Diego Garcia in the Maldives ( which remained open until 1976 ), and agreed to permit the US to establish a Naval Communication Station on one of its island territories there.

In the early 1970s, setbacks to US military capabilities in the region including the fall of Saigon, victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the closure of the Peshawar Air Station listening post in Pakistan and Kagnew Station in Ethiopia, the Mayaguez incident, and the build-up of Soviet Naval presence in Aden and a Soviet Air Base at Berbera, Somalia, caused the US to request, and the UK to approve, permission to build a fleet anchorage and enlarged airfield on Diego Garcia, and the Seabees doubled the number of workers constructing these facilities.

Various political parties in India repeatedly called for the military base to be dismantled, as they saw the US naval presence in Diego Garcia as a hindrance to peace in the Indian Ocean.

The policy prohibited people who " demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts " from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because their presence " would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.

In 1857 an addendum to the 1855 treaty permitted a British military mission to become a presence in Kandahar ( but not Kabul ) during a conflict with the Persians, who had attacked Herat in 1856.

In fact, the three Western commandants regularly protested the presence of the East German National People's Army ( NVA ) in East Berlin, particularly on the occasion of military parades.

Dublin businessman and Quaker, James G. Douglas, for example, hitherto a Home Ruler, wrote that his political outlook changed radically during the course of the Rising due to the British military occupation of the city and that he became convinced that parliamentary methods would not be sufficient to remove the British presence.

The British military presence has been sharply reduced and now contributes about 7 % to the local economy, compared with 60 % in 1984.

The United States established a continuing military presence in Honduras with the purpose of supporting the Contra guerillas fighting the Nicaraguan government and also developed an air strip and a modern port in Honduras.

At home, they are expected to render luster to various occasions by their presence, such as by attending artistic or sports performances or competitions, expositions, celebrations, military parades and remembrances, prominent funerals, visiting parts of the country, enterprises, care facilities ( often in a theatrical honor box, on a platform, on the front row, at the honours table etc.

Accords signed in Helsinki created a framework for military de-escalation in which the government has reduced its military presence, as members of GAM's armed wing decommission their weapons and apply for amnesty.

To outside observers, as well as people in Iraq who supported the American military presence, the cause of violence was obscure-as developments came faster than could be easily analyzed.

In the 1870s, Ottoman officials were reasserting their presence in the Persian Gulf, with a military intervention in 1871 — which was not effectively pursued — where family rivalries in Kuwait and Qatar were breeding chaos.

Although Baldwin's presence despite his illness was inspirational, direct military decisions were actually made by Raynald.