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...Sellout. So far, most of Angola's 500,000 whites and 250,000 people of mixed blood seem willing to stay on and take their chances. President António de Spínola's assurances that there will be an orderly transfer of power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told...
...ruling junta-which represents the Armed Forces Movement and is led by General António de Spínola, 64, a monocled, swashbuckling counterinsurgency hero turned reformer-has pledged to form a provisional government this week. As that deadline approached, no fewer than 54 different political parties, ranging from Maoist splinter groups on the left to monarchists favoring the restoration of the House of Bragança on the right, stepped up their jockeying for influence. All wanted to be part of the interim coalition that will govern Portugal until general elections are held next spring...
...ruling military junta had feared trouble on May Day, the day of traditional celebration of workers' solidarity passed without mishap. Car horns in the capital honked the happy rhythm of "Spín-Spín-Spínola" to honor the head of the junta, General António de Spínola, 64, and 200,000 people jammed a soccer stadium to hear speeches by leftist leaders newly returned from exile. THANK YOU, ARMED FORCES, read one banner paraded in the stadium. The only somber note was the continued hunt for members of the old regime...
...prisoners locked up by the secret police for helping FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) were set free in a moving ceremony on May Day. A large crowd, including many whites, gathered to embrace the released prisoners, most of whom admitted to reporters that they had been FRELIMO sympathizers. Said Colonel António Rebelo, new head of the secret police: "Go softly. Go calmly. I know you are going to be good citizens. We trust you. You are free." Some had been in prison so long that after their sudden release they had nowhere to go and found temporary shelter...
There had been fears that the Governor General, Manuel Pimentel Dos Santos, a hardliner, would not accept dismissal by Junta Leader General Antónío Spínola, and would instead declare Mozambique a white independent nation. But Army Commander in Chief General Basto Machado sent a company of paratroopers from the northern combat area to Lourenço Marques as a precaution, and in the end, Dos Santos and his family flew quietly back to Lisbon. In the African possessions of Angola and Portuguese Guinea also, the Governors General peacefully surrendered their jobs. Nonetheless, in all three...