Word: angola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states to the north. His "outward-looking" policy, built on Verwoerd's first gestures in this direction, has succeeded in creating an odd but effective trade grouping, of white-and black-ruled states in southern Africa: Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Rhodesia and the Portuguese territories of Mozambique and Angola. Overtures have been made, moreover, to other black republics...
...enter the pollution-control field by setting up the first worldwide governmental conference on the protection of the environment, to be held in 1972. Almost certainly, given the Afro-Asian majority in the Assembly, strong resolutions will be passed during the sessions condemning the white-supremacist regimes in Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique...
...young Portuguese soldiers patrolling Angola's nervous border with Zambia were surprised to see someone beckoning them from the other side. Angola, a Portuguese colony, and Zambia, an independent nation that harbors anti-Portuguese guerrillas, are virtually at war. The two soldiers were curious about the invitation from the other side. They handed their weapons to a comrade and strolled across the border to chat amicably with a Zambian immigration officer. To their chagrin, they found themselves arrested-and sentenced by an African magistrate in a lower court to a fine of $2,800 or two years in prison...
...those seats. In addition, Nkumbula was rousted out of bed in Lusaka before dawn one morning while police searched his house for weapons. The ostensible reason was that thugs from Nkumbula's party rather than foreign intruders had been responsible for a series of raids along the Angola border in which 14 Zambian villages were burned. On television and in stump speeches, Kaunda in velvety tones accused his old mentor of having become "a misguided political adventurer...
...persistence was simply the result of Dr. Salazar's personal obstinacy," said the new Premier. "But the truth is that Portugal's position could not have been otherwise." To the cheers of the hawkish National Assembly, Caetano pledged to continue the seven-year anti-insurgency wars in Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique, which last year soaked up some 40% of the country's $817 million budget...