Word: bissau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS WEEK the United Nations followed the lead of 70 nations in recognizing the newly independent Guinea-Bissau. The United States, with characteristic indifference, abstained from the General Assembly roll-call vote...
Liberation was no small feat for the revolutionary African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, which mobilized opposition to Portuguese domination of the nation's blacks. The PAIGC freed Guinea-Bissau from the yoke of four centuries of Portuguese colonialism that continues to oppress Mozambique and Angola...
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...
...Cape Verde (islands), known by its initials in Portuguese as PAIGC. As the Guinean leader told it, the assassins, after killing Cabral, kidnaped several other party members, tortured them, marched them aboard a fishing boat belonging to the PAIGC "navy," and sailed out of Conakry harbor bound for Bissau, the capital of Portuguese Guinea. Touré's patrol boats cut them off and captured them. Touré said that "many" PAIGC traitors had been rounded up and turned over to a tribunal consisting of Touré's own party, the ambassadors of several Third World countries and trusted...
These payments aid Portugal, either directly or indirectly, in its war against the liberation forces of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. It is doubtful whether a dying colonialist power such as Portugal could afford to equip and transport 140,000 troops to fight a war in Africa which has gone on intermittently for the last 11 years without the flow of money from outside sources, such as Gulf...