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...done with the meat except to bury it." The big words were false, and life itself was "just a dirty trick," as the dying Catherine tells her lover in the same book. Hemingway's image for man's plight in the universe was that of an ant colony on a burning log. There was no hope of heaven or sustaining faith in God. In the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, there is a parody of the Lord's Prayer built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness ("Our nada who art in nada, nada...
...week's end Portugal's Premier António de Oliveira Salazar told the National Assembly that he had no intention of complying with the U.N. resolution calling on Portugal to "halt measures of suppression" in Angola. Salazar charged that the U.S. was serving Communist subversion in Africa by voting for the resolution and offering support to Africa's black anti-colonialists. Said Salazar: "Everything in this world is beginning to be so topsy-turvy that those who do injury are considered worthy, those who defend themselves are criminals, and the states . . . which limit themselves to securing...
...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...
...Lisbon docks, long lines of Jeeps and trucks waited for the next ship to Africa. At the airfields, planes loaded with paratroopers took off and headed south. Dictator Premier António de Oliveira Salazar was marshaling his forces to extirpate the black rebels of Angola, Portugal's richest overseas possession...
Spies in the Consulates. The heavy hand of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's political police, the P.I.D.E., reached into every corner of the province. Some 150 Angolans were arrested and thrown in jail as politically suspect. Most conspicuous prisoner was the Roman Catholic vicar general of Angola, Msgr. Manuel Mendes das Neves, 70, a distinguished mulatto churchman whose principal crime was his outspoken sermons advocating African rights. All foreign newsmen are kept under surveillance, their phone calls tapped, their cables censored. Even foreign consulates are watched. Said one diplomat: "There is not a single local employee...