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...part of the student body. Students rallied to its support, calling a strike and joining picket lines around the embattled building. The differing degrees of support cannot be attributed to the nature of their objectives, for the relationship between Harvard's investments in Gulf Oil and the Angolan war of liberation is initially just as unclear as the link between the CFIA and the Third World. PALC and Afro scored important political points because they staged a careful campaign to gain support for several months prior to taking action. Utilizing teach-ins, intelligible leaflets and innovative tactics, they explained Portugal...
There are other facts that belie the Portuguese assertion that the Angolan people are on their side. First, there is the number of troops--this year about 60,000--that Portugal feels are necessary to keep in Angola...
From these days comes the contention that the African territories are Portuguese because Portugal created them. "The Guinean, Angolan and Mozambican people lack national traditions," Premier Caetano says, "since it is only the Portuguese language and Portuguese sovereignty that confer personality and unity on them...
...incident which particularly piqued Angolan merchants stemmed from a shortage of powdered milk, important in Angola because there are no pasteurizing plants in the main cities. When the merchants found powdered milk hard to come by, they applied to the Overseas Ministry from permits to import foreign-made powdered milk...
...same time, a number of peculiar circumstances combined to turn the early months of 1961 into the bloodbath that would inaugurate the Angolan revolution...