Word: amilcar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning home. Says Joaquim Pinedo Martins, 22: "The war was a fascist disaster, but I don't plan to emigrate. I will find my future...
...Amilcar Cabral, 48, was something of a rarity among revolutionaries-soft-spoken, moderate and a reluctant convert to violence. He claimed to be a friend of the Portuguese, whom he was successfully driving out of Guinea-Bissau, a Switzerland-size chunk of West African swamp and jungle. There was nothing moderate, though, in the manner of his death. Two weeks ago he was gunned down as he walked with his wife and a bodyguard outside a borrowed villa in Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea. The bodyguard was also killed; Mrs. Cabral survived...
...suburb of Conakry and raided the headquarters of PAIGC (African Party for the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). Guerrilla fighters from PAIGC now control anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of Portuguese Guinea, pinning down some 30,000 troops. The party's founder and leader, Amilcar Cabral, was in Europe during last week's raid and missed an attack on his house...