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ON THE WORLD SCENE
UPDATE ON TWO HOTSPOTS The battle against the possible breakup of
Canada claimed a new victim at the end of last month. Policy-holders
of Canada's biggest insurance company, Sun Life Assurance, have
backed a management decision to move its head office and about 1,800
employees from Montreal to Toronto in protest against Quebec province's
demands that French be used as the language of -business.
The Canadian Government would have preferred the company to stay in
Quebec and help fight the provincial separatist government's French
language policies. The government and Quebec business leaders are
concerned that the move will encourage what has already become a
steady trickle of company head offices from Quebec. Sun Life is the
biggest company to move since the Parti Quebecois took office in
November 1976.
The company's management said it was concerned that a requirement
that companies had to operate mainly in French would make it difficult
for it to carry on business. Most of its head office employees were
English-speaking and deal with worldwide premiums, with many from
Britain.
In Africa, a blitz strike by South African forces 155 miles deep into
southern Angola from South West Africa has sent the United Nations
into a frenzy.
The goal of the assault was the principal forward base camp of SWAPO,
the Marxist guerrilla forces that want to seize SWA (Namibia) by
force. SWAPO has been stepping up its activity lately, striking into
SWA from its sanctuary in Angola, murdering tribal authorities, kid
napping young people, destroying property, generally trying to impose
a climate of fear and intimidation.
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Of course, all of these.-.ne.
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of the Communist-Third World dominated United Nations, which favors
"wars of liberation" generally and SWAPO in particular. Thus, when
the South Africans attacked, Pretoria was universally condemned in
the Security Council for "invading" Angola. True to U.N. form there
wasn't one word of condemnation of SWAPO's terror tactics. The U.N.
will hear more of SWAPO's complaints this week.
--Gene Hogberg, News Bureau
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