The World - News from March 26, 1986
U.S.-supported Angolan rebels said they attacked and severely damaged Chevron-Gulf oil installations in northern Angola, where more than 100 Americans work. A spokesman for the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola said in Lisbon that the installations in Cabinda province were bombarded with artillery fire. But a spokeswoman in London for Chevron’s Gulf Oil subsidiary said its oil facilities were unaffected. “Quite categorically nothing happened,” the spokeswoman said.
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