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@ get this straight @

IN TORONTO a week ago | had dinner with a group that
included Peter Worthington, one of this country’s greatest
journalists. Peter edits Jnffuence magazine, writes for the
Financial Post, and is the creator of a devastating video
tape on the murderous African National Congress, which
gets patted on the head by Brian Mulroney and Joe Clark.

The talk got around to the sins

and omissions of the media and I
mentioned Angola, a country that

Peter has visited and reported on.
Wasn't it strange, I said, that
there is a virtual blanket of silence

over what is going on in that
country? Peter agreed.

out Savimba’s army, South
Africa-controlled Namibia and
South Africa itself will be open to
attack, which is why the South
Africans became involved. Our
home lunatics in Ottawa, mean-
while, can only go on repeating
apartheid, apartheid.

“Tf the Soviets and ANC win in Southern
Africa, they will of course control the
greatest mineral treasure house in the world

outside of the USSR.

route. ”’

Since the middle of the sum-
mer, you see, great battles have
been taking place in Angola bet-
ween communist and anti-
communist forces. On the one
side is the Marxist government
and its Soviet and Cuban allies.
On the other is rebel leader Jonas
Savimba’s UNITA, assisted
marginally by the South Africans.

The UK’s Sunday Telegraph
has a correspondent with Savimba
and the South Africans. It ap-
pears that Savimba is winning,
and it is certain that the outcome
of this struggle will be vital to
Western interests. Yet Canadian
reporting on the fight is at best
sporadic.

If the communists should wipe

Plus the Cape sea

It was the commies who launch-
ed this latest offensive, aiming to
defeat Savimba once and for all.
That they have not succeeded is
surprising, because Moscow has
thrown in everything it could
muster.

There are at least 30,000 Cuban
military in Angola, plus ar-
tillerymen, technical experts and
‘advisers’? from East Germany,
Czechoslovakia, North Korea and
the USSR. Over 150 of the
Soviets’ first-line battle tanks
have been deployed.

The South African Defence
Force has provided some artillery
support and engaged in ‘‘forays’’
from nearby Namibia. In the past,
too, its efficient Mirage jet fighter

Assault charges laid

A 36-YEAR-OLD North Van-
couver man appeared Tuesday in
North Vancouver provincial court
to face two criminal charges laid
against him in connection with an
alleged assault on another male.
James Wallace Taylor was orig-
inally charged with aggravated
assault and possession of a weapon

(a knife) for a purpose dangerous
to the public in connection with a
Nov. 15 incident in which another
male was alleged to have been
assaulted.

Appearing before Judge J.D.
Layton, Taylor was remanded to
Nov. 30 to fix a date for trial on
the charges.

force has controlled the air. But
now the latest MiG fighters flown
by “top gun’’ pilots have entered
the arena.

The result is that the Mirages no
longer dominate the air. Two have
been lost in recent clashes, the
Sunday Telegraph’s man reports,
and the South Africans admit that
the MiG pilots are ‘‘spoiling for a
fight.’’ There have been ground
casualties, too. A couple of weeks
ago ‘‘an unprecedented 11 South
African soldiers were killed and at
Jeast four critically injured, with
one losing both legs.’”

Those guys were fighting for us. }

“Make no mistake, a South
African told the Telegraph,’’ We
are doing the West’s dirty
work...’’.

if the Soviets and the ANC win
in Southern Africa, they will of
course control the greatest
mineral treasure house in the
world outside of the USSR. Plus
the Cape sea route.

The Soviets have a top genera!
in Angola. He is General
Konstantine Shaganovitch, an ex-
pert in guerrilla warfare who also
commanded in Afghanistan.

We, meanwhile, sit on our butts

and bleat apartheid, apartheid. |

We go even further and provide
aid to the Angolan communists.
We do not provide arms. (Not yet,
anyway, although you never know
what those bright guys in Ottawa
will do next.) Nor, on giveaway
standards, do we give a lot. But

what we do give allows other |

funds to be released for pro-
secuting the war.
Peter and 1 shook our heads

over all this and had another |

drink. What can one say? Sending
food packages to Hitler shortly
before his invasion of Poland
would have been no crazier than
what we are doing now in Africa.
One despairs.

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The log carrier was originally
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