POLICE CRACKDOWN CONTINUES, STRIKES INCLUDE 100,000 IN SPAIN MADRID — Committees formed to coordinate the strike move- ment gripping Spain were the target of a police crackdown in the capital Jan. 16. More than 145 people were arrested and charged with planning a general strike. Strikes all over the country now involve more than 100,000 workers. The Movement of Agitation has committees in the major strike centres and its members include a united front of Communists, Socialists, the Catholic Church and officials of the illegal Workers’ Commissions. : Crackdowns on strikers and support demonstrations by police using clubs and tear gas continue. In Madrid Jan. 15 police broke up a rally of more than 1,000 women by firing tear gas and smoke bombs into the crowd. The women were protesting rising prices and continued internment of political prisoners. SOVIETS RESOLVED TO WORK FOR ARMS ACCORD MOSCOW — A Pravda article Jan: 18 said the Soviet Union will do all it can to reach a new Soviet-U.S. accord on strategic arms limitations. : The article appeared two days before the start of a visit to the Soviet Unicn by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for talks “en arms limitations. The newspaper stressed that arms limitation agreement are con- sidered the most important element in the growth of detente be- tween the two countries. “The Soviet people consider the normalization and development of Soviet-American relations as a most important tendency in the policy of peaceful co-existence,” the article said. LEBANESE PREMIER QUITS BEIRUT — Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami resigned his post Jan. 18 after a ceasefire call failed when fascist Falangist forces launched a full-scale attack on the Moslem district of the capital. Mr. Karami was the top Moslem office holder in the country. Fighting in Lebanon has grown to civil war proportions in past months and Karami’s numerous ceasefire attempts have failed as no ‘action has been taken to solve the problems over which fighting began. Left-wing forces are mainly of Moslem origin, and the Falangist fascists are mostly Christian. But the struggle is essentially be- tween the poor and powerless majority and the rich and powerful minority in Lebanon. The left-wing forces want on political, economic and social reforms, but the right-wing refuses to talk. CIA COVERS FOR AGENTS TO BE ABANDONED WASHINGTON — The CIA will abandon its practice of trying to pass off CIA officials as government employees abroad due to increasingly frequent identification of its agents, a spokesman said _ last week. “It is obviously not a viable system,” the official said. _ The difficulty involved in altering the covers of thousands of CIA agents around the world will be “mind boggling,” he said. The problem will be left insolved until director-designate of the CIA, George Bush, takes up his post. Mr. Bush is presently ambassador to China. —_— STUDY ON EAST TIMOR BEGINS JAKARTA — UN special envoy Vittorio Guiciardi arrived in _ Indonesia Jan. 15 to begin a study of the crisis in East Timor, the small eastern part of the island of Timor, which declared itself independent of Portugal Nov. 29 and was subsequently invaded by pio ig ga troops. Indonesia controls the western section of the land. UN resclutions passed after the invasion call for the withdrawal of Indonesian troops from the former Portuguese colony. Mr. Gui- ciardi has conferred with Ramos Horta, a leader of the Revolution- ary Front for the Independence of East Timor (Fretlin), which fought for independence and made the independence declaration. _Fretlin held government power until the Indonesian invasion. nTeRMTOML Te to protest the sentencing to death of ten Iranian political activists. The demonstrators wear masks to prevent identification that would mean reprisals against their families in Iran. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 23, 1976—Page 6 OAU stalemate on Angola threatens African liberation _ By ANDREI DOLGOV ADDIS.ABABA (APN) — The Organization of African Unity ‘(OAU) has failed to take any decision cn the most acute poli- tical problem in Africa today — the situation in Angola. The votes of 46 state leaders who gathered in Addis Ababa at the emergency session of the OAU Assembly were equally divided on two resolutions con- cerning the war in Angola. The summit found a formal way out of the situation, which threat- ened a split: the heads of state and government decided to post- pone the sittings, entrusting con- sideration of the problem to a special committee. The convocation of the .emer- gency conference was caused by mounting international support for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the People’s Re- public of Angola, already recog- nized by 40 states. : It was necessary to revise the previous position of the OAU leadership. That position, which, favored equal recognition of the three movements fighting in An- gola — MPLA, on the one hand, and FNLA and UNITA, on the other, from the outset did not correspond to the nature of the conflict and the forces engaged U.S. Angola Angola. in fighting. That position became absolutely untenable in the eyes ef the African public when FNLA and UNITA, backed by the United States and other Western powers, began to get support from South. Africa, which sent its regular army to Angola. Nevertheless, even in the face of aggression by the deadiy enemy of African inde- pendence, the OAU failed to take a step which would have con- tributed to the cause of African liberation. The conflict in Angola repre- involvement greater than admitted “American Warships Are Off Angola” was the headline on page one of last week’s issue of. The Observer, a leading weekly ngwspaper in Britain and West- ern Europe. Citing a source “a secret report, prepared for a re- putable international organiza- tion, which has reached The Ob- server,” writer David Martin said that “South African and United States military involve- ment in the Angolan war is far ' greater than realized.” Martin wrote: “The report raises a series of disturbing questions. First, it appears to show ‘that, while the Americans have been accusing the Soviet Union of escalating the war, Washington, in fact, took the first step.” Martin and The Observer staff checked out Pentagon denials of the charges in the secret report and found that what the Penta- gon said was either untrue or misleading. The secret report said that a U.S. Navy task force was sent into Angolan waters in. December to give direct military support to a South African in- vasion force the report estimat- ed to be 4-6,000 men. The Observer, citing its own investigations, cast grave doubt on Pentagon assertions that the U.S. aircraft carrier Indepen- dence was in the Eastern Medi- terranean conducting “routine operations.” The Observer said that the Independence left Ports- mouth, England, on the night of November 27-28 and that British authorities were told it was leaving for the U.S., not the Mediterranean. The Observer also said that the secret report’s very detailed description of the U.S. Navy task force off Angola dovetailed with what was known about the force which left Portsmouth with the Independence, 1e., the leaving Portsmouth, guided missile cruiser Farragut, the frigates Bowen and Ains- worth, the submarine rescue ship Kittywake, and the transports Kalamazoo and Denebola. The secret report said the In- dependence was alerted on Nov. 15 to proceed to Angolan waters, to carry out tactical air strikes in support of the South Afri- cans. After Nov. 15, the carrier was armed with “several hun- dred tons of napalm, Sidewinder missiles and anti-personnel frag- mentation bombs in pods.” After the task force took on further supplies in the Azores. The secret report pointed out that Washington has already admitted that U.S. FAC (Forward Air Control) spotter planes based in Zaire are carry- ing out reconnaissance missions oyer the People’s Republic of Angola. The report said the Independ- ence, which carries 90 F-4 Phan- tom jet fighter-bombers, was sent to Angolan waters after the Angolan patriots smashed the South African drive from. the south against Luanda. “The re- port says that initially officials in Washington, who knew about the impending (South African) attacks from Namibia, believed the original columns. would sweep through to the capital, Luanda, by about mid-November; But in fact they wert held north of Novo Redondo (about 250 ~ miles south of Luanda).” South Africa then threw 3,000 addi- tional troops into the battle and moved two wings of fighter- bombers into southern Zaire. The report, dated December 14, Said that the South Africans also -have about 500 tanks and armor- ed cars, including over 100 U:S.- built M-41 Walker Bulldog tanks and 200 U.S-built M-113 armored personnel carriers. (APC). Organization of African Unity Chairman Idi Amin and Ethiopian leader Tafari Banti, at the opening of the special conference on sents a clash between the trul national organization — MPLA, which has won high prestige i the anti-colonial war, and non- representative tribalist. groups, which have compromised them- selves by collaborating with South Africa, multinational cor-7 porations and Western intelli-7 gence:agencies. It is natural that: all sound forces of Africa and) socialist countries, primarily the USSR and Cuba, are coming out in support of MPLA. 3 The Nigerian resolution at the’ Addis Ababa summit meeting: was prompted by the under- standing of a situation which is’ threatening not only Angola, but the prospects of the libera- tion movement in Namibia,.and- in the.whole of Southern Africa. The proposal to recognize the: ; People’s Republic of Angola, to render it material and military aid and to condemn South Afri- ca’s armed aggression perpetrat- ed in collusion with FNLA and UNITA opened up a real oppor- tunity for the OAU to play a constructive role in Angola. The resolution did not pass however, although the other, Senegalese, resolution, which called for OAU neutrality, a7 j ceasefire in Angola and the es-_ tablishment of a government of © national unity there, was not adopted either. ' That resolution ignored the es- |t sence of the Angolan conflict and | a the principled difference in posi- — tions of countries supporting: the confronting groups. This Sfand is not new and is being © very actively foisted on the ™ OAU from the outside with the | obvious aim of saving FNLA and UNITA, and compelling MPL to share power with the pro- western groups whose politic and military chances are dim nishing with every day. The fact that 22 vctes were cast in fav of the Senegalese resolution is in- dicative of the complicated poli tical situation in Africa today. The summit meeting has al confirmed the polarization of po litical forces typical of present- day Africa. Some African lead- ers are trying to prevent at an cost the development of lef wing anti-capitalist trends their countries and on the enti Continent. They do this at t cost of conciliation and passivi in the face of the open aggre sion threatening to impede th growth of liberation moveme in Southern Africa. : However, neither social n Political progress can be sto ped in Africa in general or Angola, in particular. The stru, gle in Angola and around it continuing, : oS Leite ab gig