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organization.
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In welcoming guests, I, I am confident
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that your participation, your contributions,
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your resolutions, and the deliberations
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will reflect this important,
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this revolutionary spirit which has,
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which has, which has been seen
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in the whole battle of the people of Angola.
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Secondly, we visited a military hospital.
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This was a very great significance because in that hospital
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we found young men - gallant young men -
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who had participated and who have found to be wounded when
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they lost the island, and they are there because of
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the fight for their motherland.
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Thirdly, we visited a very important township.
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That is, it is now called Nova Lisboa.
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That some of us had the opportunity
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with the, the, the, the land
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to see that place where the Portuguese were still in Angola
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at the time of the, the, the first transitional government.
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And we know that even at that time
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that was a stronghold of the revolutionary MPLA.
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When we visited this place, we were taken to a tree,
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a tree of life, of the--
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Transcription Notes:
Someone who speaks Portuguese and/or is familiar with Bantu languages would likely be helpful in these transcriptions. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-11 17:51:42 Had to redo timestamps, insert speaker name, etc... ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-12 20:01:44 Erased "Freda Brown" as the speaker. She was from Australia, white, and was an activist and feminist, belonging to the Communist Party of Australia. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-12 21:24:26