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...M.P.L.A., headed by Marxist Intellectual Dr. Agostinho Neto...
...colonial prerogative to decide "when the native is ready for independence," the fact of the matter is that thirteen years of fighting have produced a more seasoned leadership than four hundred years of Portuguese colonialism could master. In my opinion such leaders as Samora Machel in Mozambique, Holden Roberto, Agostinho Neto and Jonas Savimbi in Angola and Luiz Cabral in Guinea-Bissau--to mention a few--have demonstrated a capacity for leadership that seems superior to Lisbon's crop of leadership during the past fifty years...
...intense that it melted the roof of the plane, took care of the rest. In all, 122 of the 134 people aboard died, most of them Brazilians. Among the victims were Filinto Muller, president of the Brazilian Senate and head of the ruling party, and two popular musicians, Agostinho dos Santos and José Iglesias. Only those in the cockpit and the first few rows of seats were spared. Of the twelve survivors, eleven were crew members who were stationed at the front of the plane; unlike the passengers, some of them apparently had protective smoke masks. Six other crew...
...Portuguese. The Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) is led by smooth. Sorbonne-educated Mario Pinto de Andrade, 34, a mulatto whose backing comes mainly from other assimilados, the educated half-castes who have long had full Portuguese citizenship; to widen its appeal, however, an Angolan black, Poet Agostinho Neto, was recently made M.P.L.A.'s nominal leader. Andrade, who, like most of Salazar's foes, is often denounced as a Communist, is an astute politician and an able organizer. He has built a nationwide following among the mulatto elite who would be the logical leaders of independent...