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• CLARKE BID FOR LEADER 

KEN Clarke confirmed last night he is to run for Tory leader - despite new details about his links to the tobacco industry. . . .

Earlier, it was revealed Mr Clarke represented British American Tobacco at a secret meeting in 1999 to discuss how to oppose a proposed World Health Organisation bid to ban cigarette advertising.

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Unified Tobacco Factory Factory to Open Cigarette Production Line 

Two lines of cigarette production, of the national brand "Ac" and "SL", with the capacity of producing five thousands units per minute, was inaugurated today, in Luanda, in the Unified Tobacco Factory (FTU), an investment by the company "Britsh American Tobacco".

The setting up of the equipments, which took about one year, and the respective training of the Angolan staff, cost the company expenses of about 3 million Dollars.

According to the general Director of the FTU Unified Society (STU) of Angola, Fernando Cantalupo, the current production will permit to provide the national market with about 80 per cent of its production that will allow the country to save foreign currency.

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Paying homage to an Angolan king 

One of the country's most important traditional leaders today is King Ekuikui IV of Bailundo, a city in central Huambo province. . . .

Cockerels, cigarettes, whisky and wine are the offerings visitors must take to the King of Bailundo - if they want an invitation to his royal court.

I joined Sousa Jamba, an Ovimbundu and an Angolan, to pay our respects and we were able to negotiate a good price for two cockerels at Bailundo's main market.

"We should have brought him some tobacco," worries Mr Jamba.

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Nearly Four Million Dollars Invested in Cigarettes 

At least three million nine hundred and fourty five thousand (3.945.000) dollars were this year spent by the company "Barco Trading Limited", in the construction of a cigarette factory in a Lubango suburb, southern Huila province. The company Director Ricardo Rujujir said the firm has the annual capacity to produce 600 millions of seven different brands of cigarettes, including "yes", "supermatch" and "forum", with the South African label.

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