Word: bissau
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...years, residents of Portugal's three African colonies, Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, have fought a guerrilla war against their Portuguese rulers. An independent Guinea-Bissau won admission to the United Nations last fall, but Portugal continues to control large sections of the other two countries...
Caetano fired Spinola last week for criticizing the government's policy of seeking to retain control of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau by continuing a 13-year-old war against revolutionary guerrilas...
...church groups have asked Exxon to remove all its operations under concession to the Portuguese government from Guinea Bissau, a west African Portuguese colony...
Nationalists in Guinea Bissau, also called Portuguese Guinea, now have control over three-fourths of the nation after ten years of fighting for independence. The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the independent Guinea Bissau nation, but Portugal continues to hang on to its one-fourth of Guinea Bissau. Exxon has a Portuguese oil exploration contract in Guinea Bissau...
...same time, the Portuguese have been trying to give at least a semblance of regional autonomy to the colonies. Legislative assemblies were elected this year in all three territories, resulting in an all-black assembly in Guinea-Bissau, a legislature with a non-white majority in Mozambique and one with a white majority in Angola (where the electorate is 80% black...