Word: bissau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Film on Guinea-Bissau (African guerrillas fighting the Portuguese...
...Francis Chichester, 69, plans to set out from Plymouth, England, this week for an assault on the singlehanded seaman's equivalent of the four-minute mile. In the improbable event that everything goes as he hopes it will, Chichester and his 57-ft. Gypsy Moth V will make Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, in 18 days, then cover the 4,000 miles of Atlantic to San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, in 20 days−an astonishing average of 200 singlehanded miles sailed every day. The 1968 transatlantic race was won at a daily average 109.8 miles. "To increase the speed...
Portugal feels threatened. In Guinea-Bissau the PAIGC (Partido Africano de Indepencia da Guine e Cabol Verde) claims to have control of two-thirds of the land of Guinea-Bissau. What this means is that Portugal's dominant position is severely endangered and that Africans are gaining control of their countries. Portugal attacked Guinea to retain her control of Guinea-Bissau and to maintain a position of colonial domination in Mozambique and Angola. foundation of support outside Guinea-Bissau...
...attack against the independent state of Guinea, Portugal intended to destroy the foundation of the PAIGC, to release political prisoners of the DPG (Democratic Party of Guinea-the national party of Guinea) which supports the struggle in Guinea-Bissau and shares a border with Guinea-Bissau, to shake severely the free government of Guinea and undermine/destroy its position of aiding the independence movement of the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. Another reason for this blatant act of oppression is to launch an attack against the leaders of Pan-Africanism which Portugal recognizes as in opposition to her thieving actions...
...This wealth makes Guinea one of the richest lands in Africa and lends to the possibility that Guinea will be one of the most powerful of the African countries. With Pan-Africanism as a political base, Guinea is seen as a dangerous nation to Portuguese interests in Guinea-Bissau. Further implications of the attack upon Guinea are that Portugal eventually seeks to control Guinea as well as Guinea-Bissau because both states are exceptionally wealthy and that as a politically correct and politically advancing state, Guinea will make a dangerous neighbor if Portugal could retain control of Guinea-Bissau...