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MANCHESTER, N.H.--It was a warm and sunny primary day, with none of Monday's cold weather, but voting in New Hampshire's largest city was slowed by other factors--confusion over the ballotting procedure and mechanical failures at the polls...
...efforts into his gamble for a New Hampshire triumph. For more than a year he has been working the entire state, and he is the best-organized Democratic candidate. This week his canvassers will begin their third round of reaching the 35,000 Democratic households in the largest cities to make low-key, door-to-door efforts of persuasion...
...rout began early last week when M.P.L.A. units overran Huambo (pop. 65,000), Angola's second largest city and the provisional capital of the F.N.L.A.-UNITA government. Despite UNITA claims that it had mounted a tough fight, Savimbi's forces had actually evacuated the city several hours before the M.P.L.A. entered it, possibly to avoid civilian casualties in an armed confrontation. A day later, Luanda radio announced the "glorious capture" of the key Atlantic ports of Lobito and Benguela, which with the capture of the east central Angolan town of Luso late in the week gave the M.P.L.A...
Cubans are also active in a number of Arab states. They train Polisario guerrillas from Western Sahara in Algeria. In South Yemen, there are more than 3,000 advisers and special forces, including MIG-flying pilots. By far the largest detachment is in Syria: 3,500 to 4,000 men, including an entire armored brigade (with 94 Russian T-62 tanks), two commando battalions, perhaps 30 or more MIG pilots...
Hanoi has followed a flexible foreign policy toward other countries, trying at once to promote its revolutionary credentials and get aid and even investment from industrialized nations. The Soviet Union is the Vietnamese Communists' best friend and the largest aid donor ($500 million in 1975); Chinese aid is estimated at about 40% of that...