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Last week Dr. Boonsanong Punyod-yana, 39, the articulate, American-educated secretary-general of the Socialist Party, was gunned down in his car while returning home from a political meeting. Later in the week a bomb exploded at dawn in Bangkok's Rama VI Engineering School and killed three students. In all, there have been a dozen deaths related to the current election campaign...
...response to South Africa, U.S. and Zairois aid to the FNLA and Unita, the MPLA asked socialist countries for aid. The aid given was quite sufficient: over 10,000 Cuban troops (according to the U.S. press) and advanced equipment. The U.S. government tried to paint this as wanton aggression, but it finally admitted, as reported in The New York Times, that Soviet aid to the MPLA started after the massive increase in U.S. aid to FNLA and Unita last spring...
...government decided to help South Africa set up a nice black government which would be sympathetic to apartheid and foreign investors and hopefully wouldn't let wages rise too much. What they didn't count on was the response of the Angolan people and the solidarity of the socialist countries...
...make no secret of the fact that we see détente as the way to create more favorable conditions for peaceful socialist and Communist construction," Brezhnev told the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at its opening session in Moscow. "Détente and peaceful coexistence refer to interstate relations. This means mainly that disputes and conflicts between countries are not to be settled by the use or threat of force. Détente does not in the slightest abolish, and cannot abolish or alter, the laws of the class struggle . . . There is no room...
Civil war in Angola erupted against last fall after the breakdown of the coalition government's elections. The October, 1975 polling has little in common with the Chilean fiasco, where a socialist regime attempted to assume power through the ballot box, leaving intact the fascist network of its predecessors. Rather in Angola the population had already fought an arduous 14 year war against the Portuguese minority regime for the very sake of establishing a socialist state under majority rule. During the transitional period last year, the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement conducted and published monthly polls on the relative popularity...