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Thus, at a Washington press conference, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last week once again warned Moscow to stop its massive support of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) faction in Angola's civil war. Soviet "actions in Angola [are] incompatible with a relaxation of tensions," added Kissinger. Moscow quickly indicated that it was not heeding Kissinger's threat. Declared the government newspaper Izvestia: "Support for the national liberation struggles is an important principle of Soviet foreign policy...
Twice last week Argentine President Isabel Perón went on television to tell her people how she had saved them from near disaster. In the first address, she claimed to have ended, without a single casualty, an abortive four-day coup by a faction of air force officers. Then on Christmas Eve she was on the TV screen again, praising the valor of troops who had crushed a massive guerrilla attack on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and giving the impression that she had the country well in hand...
...would forcibly put Isabel on a plane to Spain and then turn the administration over to Luder. A number of younger plotters within the army would like to see the military suspend both the constitution and elections and rule the country directly. These potential rebels are themselves divided: one faction favors a left-wing junta as in Peru, another a right-wing version like Brazil...
...politics makes strange bedfellows, so does business-as Gulf Oil Corp. has discovered. Last week, under pressure from the U.S. State Department, Gulf suspended its profitable oil-producing operations in the newly independent African nation of Angola. One reason: its taxes and royalties had been supporting the Soviet-backed faction in the civil war there, and indeed far outweighing the money that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had been slipping to the anti-Communist side...
...said that to gain popular support, the government must reform, but the government is caught between a right-wing faction of the leadership and the majority of the Spanish people, who want democracy...