Word: bissau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significance of this statement can only fully be understood when the interaction that Portugal Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau (to the Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau is "Portuguese Guinea") as well as Mozambique and Angola experience is explained. Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau are categorized by Europeans as "Colonies" of Portugal. Portugal is a very poor country with few natural resources. She is able to export very little. In order to maintain an economic position above bankruptcy, she must depend upon external aid for support. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supports her to a large extent (especially military) but she receives the bulk...
Colonialist Portugal has ignored the desire the peoples of Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and for freedom from external control expressed by Angola as represented by their fights against Portuguese imperialism. Portugal has been launching attacks against the struggling brothers and sisters in Africa and their continuing ever-building fight for liberation. In the Congress of African People's news release, the fact was brought to national attention that Portugal had been reprimanded by the United Nations' Security Council for attacks into Guinea and Senegal prior to the November 22nd military advancement. As recently as October 1970, the Republic of Guinea charged...
...immediately assumed that the whites were either mercenaries or Portuguese bent on punishing Touré for harboring guerrillas who regularly harass the neighboring colony of Portuguese Guinea, also known as Guinea-Bissau for its capital. Mercenaries who were recruited in France in the past to fight in African wars re-emerged recently in London, and there was talk among them of "a big operation in West Africa...
Suburban Targets. Before the landing party's members were killed, captured or driven off by Touré's Chinese-trained "people's militia," they headed toward an expensive suburb of Conakry and raided the headquarters of PAIGC (African Party for the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). Guerrilla fighters from PAIGC now control anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of Portuguese Guinea, pinning down some 30,000 troops. The party's founder and leader, Amilcar Cabral, was in Europe during last week's raid and missed an attack on his house...
...captured. Three Europeans -including a five-year-old Yugoslav girl -were killed in the fighting, which went on for some 40 hours in the capital. Lisbon denied any Portuguese connection. In a similar episode, however, Portuguese aircraft recently bombed Senegalese border villages from which guerrillas had been attacking Guinea-Bissau (the attacks quickly ceased...