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...Benguela railway. Running clear across central Angola, the railway is difficult to defend against sabotage. The line has been blown up in a dozen places in recent weeks; three locomotives have been destroyed by saboteurs of Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) who simply loosened rail bolts and let the trains derail by their own weight...
...Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, was elected president of the party's national council, an honorary post that would give him a handy platform for the campaign. A tough scrapper, the self-styled "Tuscan Pony" likes nothing better than a tussle with the Communists, whose party organ L'Unita huffily described his resurrection as "partly pathetic and partly provocative." While Fanfani makes his pitch to voters on the right, beleaguered Premier Moro, 59, and Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, 64, will try to keep the Christian Democrats' left-wing supporters in line...
Jorge I. Sangumba, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for UNITA, speaking to about 50 people, said "The Soviet Union is fighting this war mainly by proxy. Castro is mainly paying off his debts from the sixties...
Sangumba denied allegations that UNITA, a former ally of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola in the fight against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola troops, received direct aid from the United States...
Before the speech, five protestors from the Spartacus Youth League (SYL) demonstrated outside the CFIA building. "UNITA is a tool of American and South African imperialism, clearly a reactionary force that, given a chance, would crush workers in Angola," Brian Mendez '75, a SYL member, said yesterday...