 The Carter team failed to find a solution.War between western supported movements and the communist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and Cuban forces had produced to decades of civil war that cost up to 1 million lives.The Reagan administration offered covert aid to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), a group of anti-communist and pro capitalist fighters led by Jonas Savimbi, whose attacks were backed by South Africa and the US.