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...South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit, during a press conference in Luanda gave a very different version of the foray, in which two commandos were killed (the others escaped...
...bearded Du Toit, 27, still wearing hospital pajamas and with his arm in a sling, said his unit had been sent into Angola to blow up the Malongo oil * refinery, jointly owned by Gulf Oil Corp. and the state-owned oil concern, Sonangol. The mission: to cause a "considerable economic setback" for the Luanda government. The plant is the largest oil refinery in Angola, processing more than half of the country's crude-oil production. The South African government denied that the commandos were sent to sabotage the facility...
...Du Toit's statement was quickly seized on last week by Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who has 30,000 of his troops stationed in Angola. He lambasted U.S.-sponsored peace efforts in southern Africa and charged that the U.S. had known all along that South Africa was lying when it claimed to have withdrawn its forces from Angola. The Angolans had been considering a phased withdrawal of Cuban forces in return for the South African pullout, but last week, according to South African sources, the Luanda government intended to break off negotiations with Pretoria...
...Powell < himself. The Philadelphia Inquirer published an impressively detailed report that for at least 18 months the police had been working up contingency assault plans and studying the Move bunker in photographic blowups. For weeks and possibly months, the paper said, police had been secretly testing various explosives, including Du Pont's Tovex TR-2, which was later used in the attack. While Sambor stuck to his contention that tests showed no reason to suppose Tovex would cause a fire, the Inquirer cited technical lore from Du Pont stating that a detonation would produce heat of from 3,000 degrees...
...aircraft killing the coconut trees that provided the main source of their income. Vo Van Canh, 49, a former Viet Cong, points to his 17-year-old son, who has the arrested development of a two-year-old, the result, says Vo, of dioxin poisoning. At the Tu Du Women's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc says her studies, though not conclusive, suggest that women exposed to the defoliants have 15 times as many fetal deaths as those who were not exposed...