African Activist Archive

Contents: UNITED STATES THREATENS TO VETO ANGOLAN APPLICATION TO U.N. • REPORT FROM ANGOLA by Mike Shuster • IMPORTANT: The Angola Support Conference will take place in Chicago, May 28-30 • THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA ANNOUNCES GUIDELINES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT • MERCENARIES TO BE TRIED IN ANGOLA • ANGOLAN BISHOP SPEAKS WITH UNITED METHODIST • The newsletter includes a reprint of a newspaper article "Angola African Girón (Bay of Pigs): Excerpts from the speech by Commander-In-Chief Fidel Castro at the ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the victory at Playa Girón, Havana, April 19, 1976." The newsletter includes the text of a press release put out by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). The newsletter discusses Zaire, the Security Council, the General Assembly, Angolan President Agostinho Neto, Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, UN membership, MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), Angolan children, the May Day parade, nationalizations, former Portuguese settlers, Angola's economy, speculation, food, Commission for Aid and Dinamization of Cooperatives (CADCO), the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Bishop Emilio de Carvalho, the Methodist Federation for Social Action, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, Cuban troops, antitank weapons, and Cuban soldiers.

African Activist Archive

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