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Chorus of Abuse. Some of the recent attacks on Nasser also challenge his revolutionary credentials. In an al Akhbar article, former Socialist Leader Ahmed Hussein charges that on the night of the anti-Farouk coup, Nasser, then a lieutenant colonel, donned civilian clothes and was sitting in his auto ready to escape if the revolt failed. Only when success seemed assured did he join his fellow officers...
...there is ample evidence that colonialism actually improved most societies. In 1962, for example, Algeria acquired railways, roads, ports, airfields, hospitals, schools, water supplies and power stations from the departing French-not to mention a thriving network of profitable farms that have since been all but ruined by heavyhanded socialist administration...
...contrary to the State Department's allegations, the MPLA is by no means a tool of Soviet diplomacy. Unlike FNLA and UNITA--both tribally based organizations--the MPLA's real concerns are for socialist development in Angola. The MPLA has already built broadly based popular institutions in the areas under its control, bringing in its wake education, health care, and participatory democracy...
...dangers of maintaining unpopular, counterrevolutionary regimes in Third World countries, dangers clearly illustrated in South Vietnam. FNLA/UNITA are little better than tribal factions, willing to surrender their country's wealth to foreign powers in order to further their limited interests. The MPLA, with its avowed goals of socialist development and democracy, represents the brightest hope for the Angolan people, and deserves the support of all who wish to see a free and independent Africa...
...Minister Bourges claims that Portuguese officers have been dispatched to France to spread revolution in the army and that more than 100 Frenchmen of draft age have gone to Portugal to learn subversive tactics they can put to use when drafted at home. The government has also accused the Socialist Party-a partner of the Communists in France's United Left-of causing trouble in the army by supporting soldiers' committees. The Socialists answer that they merely wish to secure democratic rights for the man in uniform. But according to Premier Jacques Chirac, the Socialists have "gravely compromised...