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...Neutral Host. The conference was deadlocked from its opening moments. On one side were the 22 nations that back the Soviet-sponsored Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), which has been receiving massive arms aid from the U.S.S.R. and is being helped on the battlefield by some 7,500 Cubans. The M.P.L.A.'S supporters at the O.A.U. included all the former Portuguese African colonies, as well as such leftist states as Guinea, Somalia and Algeria; they endorsed a resolution proposed by Nigeria's strongman, General Murtala Mohammed, urging the recognition of the M.P.L.A. as the legitimate...
...summit's host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling...
Campbell refused, but a rematch of sorts will take place in September. Canada will act as host at a tournament for teams from the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the U.S. The Canadian team will consist of players from both the N.H.L. and the World Hockey Association. More than pride will be at stake: $150,000 will be awarded to the winner...
After that, Dorsey instructed his employees to cooperate with further investigations of the slush fund. Unpleasant facts spilled out in an ugly torrent. According to the McCloy report, Gulf had slipped money to a host of prominent politicians over the years, starting with Lyndon Baines Johnson, who received $50,000 in 1961 when he was Vice President. Other alleged recipients included Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination; Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania; New Mexico Republican Senator Edwin Mechem, now a federal judge; and Indiana Republican Representative Richard Roudebush, now chief...
Tuesday night Martin Agronsky, another Jew, picked up the Shannon column on his nightly news panel over the Public Broadcasting System-N.H. channel 11. Agronsky quoted some of the most obnoxious allegations by Shannon. However the host of the panel was nonplussed. Both his panelists, though non-Jews, revealed themselves as long time and continuing friends and admirers of the Jew, Kissinger...