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...Iran traffic is far beyond the rumor stage. TIME has seen proof in the form of hundreds of documents provided by Carlos Vieira de Mello, an international arms dealer who worked with the purported rug merchant, Hashemi. TIME has also examined secret records from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control and papers from private arms companies showing that U.S. tank engines and fighter-plane spares were routed to Iran through Canada and Britain. The records indicate that much of the trade is directed from London...
Apart from the Communists, the new government faces monumental problems, including a 30% inflation rate, an ever-rising population of Angolan refugees and-perhaps worst of all-a general collapse of public morale. "We must show the people something practical being done," said Vasco Vieira de Almeida, a prominent independent politician. "They must see housing and hospitals being built. They must hear the sound of hammers every morning...
Power Grab. "I can understand why people up to now lack confidence," Economics Minister Vasco Vieira de Almeida told TIME Correspondent George Taber. "It is up to the government to create it." Creativity, however, is not exactly helped by the patchwork makeup of the 15-member Cabinet, which includes Socialists and Communists as well as nonpolitical technocrats, centrists and a lieutenant colonel. Last week, typically, the Cabinet set aside three days to discuss a series of sweeping economic decisions; the meeting broke up in disarray after the first day, and further discussion was postponed for a week...
...African population that makes up 90 per cent of the people in Angola supports the ruling Portuguese 10 per cent. The fact that the Portuguese cite most as evidence of their support is their ability to stay in Africa. "We are not a very mighty county," explained Vasco Vieira Garin, the former Portuguese ambassador to the United Nations. "If the people did not support us, how could we remain in Africa for the past 11 years fighting wars in three territories...
...Vieira da Silva...