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| | MPLA Party Congress Ushers in Political and Economic Reforms (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | While the party congress met, the Angolan government acknowledged that its military forces had launched a counter-offensive against UNITA forces in the central highlands. |
 | | Also of note, some key political leaders from the MPLA's earliest days resigned their positions within the party leadership, including the MPLA Secretary-General Lopo do Nascimento, his predecessor and former Prime Minister Marcolino Moco, current Prime Minister Fernando França van Dunem and Interior Minister Santana André Pitra "Petroff". |
 | | Newcomers to the party leadership include Public Administration Minister António Pitra Neto, Vice Minister of Territorial Administration Higino Carneiro, Sonangol chief Joaquim David, Angola's Ambassador to Portugal José Patricio, Irene Neto, daughter of Agostinho Neto, Angola's first president, and presidential chief of staff José Leitao. |
| www.angola.org /news/mission/december98/mpla.html (611 words) |
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