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...ammunition that they could not carry with them. At week's end Cuban-led M.P.L.A. troops had pushed the F.N.L.A. to within 50 miles of the Zaïre border. It was apparently only a matter of time before Roberto's army lost control of Santo António do Zaïre, São Salvador and Maquela do Zombo-the last three major towns still in F.N.L.A. hands...
...bolted cabinet, anciently designed to preserve the skins mechanically if not chemically. The skins lie on great wooden beds that slide out with the surging and lachrymatory bouquet of mothballs. The rest of the monotreme family is represented by spiny echidnas, one rack above--also from Australia, of an ant-eating predilection. The larger delegation is of marsupials, creatures that spend a portion of their pre-natal existences in their mothers' pouches. The kangaroos are small and flat and sad-looking, their once-powerful tails somewhat dessicated by this umbrageous and horizontal, decidedly scientific, afterlife...
...successive Portuguese governments that agreed to grant Angola independence. Few differentiate between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...
...officers who once studied at the High General Staff School under General Manuel Diez Alegria, who was abruptly sacked as army chief of staff by Franco in June 1974. Reason: Diez had openly advocated that the government ease its repression of dissidents and he was also being likened to António de Spínola, the Portuguese general who played a key part in toppling the fascist dictatorship in Lisbon. Anonymous senders even began mailing Diez Alegria monocles-Spinola's hallmark...
...strict alert and confined to barracks following the mutiny of an artillery regiment near the city of Oporto. The 650 mutineers at the Serra do Pilar Regiment ran a red banner up the flagpole and demanded the dismissal of the region's new anti-Communist military commander, General António Pires Veloso. They also demanded an end to what they called "purges" of leftists from the barracks and the reopening of a leftist-controlled military-transport center that had been shut down on orders from Pires Veloso the previous week. The general responded by threatening to bomb...