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Since 1966, Gulf Oil-of which Harvard owns $25.630.751 in stocks-has been developing a rich oil field in the Cabinda area of Angoia. As part of its contract for use of the field, Gulf has agreed to pay the Portuguese government 30 per cent of all its Cabinda profits, plus a set royalty on each barrel of oil produced there...
...official in the State Department's West African division confirmed yesterday that Gulf's agreement requires the company to finance barracks "if necessary to guard the oil fields." He said that whatever troops and barracks might be in Cabinda "are there to protect the area, not just Gulf...
...burning of Portuguese plantations by guerrilla bands. With the rains due this month, the army desperately seeks a military decision but can rarely come to grips with the elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former French and Belgian Congo. But even...
...colony of what used to be France, but it is strategic. It lies, heavily forested, under Africa's western armpit, on the coast of French Equatorial Africa, which extends into the continent so far that it touches Libya and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. South of Gabon lies little Cabinda (part of Angola); then the seaward corridor of the Belgian Congo; then Angola (Portuguese) ; then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French...