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Others obviously unhappy were the big business concerns that came to be identified over the years with Portugal's colonialist policies. The Diamang Diamond Co. in Angola, for example, operated for decades like an empire within an empire with its own dreaded police force, which was said to have coerced blacks into forced labor. The tactics have changed since then, but when a high-ranking Portuguese minister was asked if such companies would be allowed to continue operating in the territories, he replied, "I think...
...DRESSING OF DIAMOND by NICOLAS FREELING 252 pages. Harper...
...comes A Dressing of Diamond, the first proof of Freeling's new freedom...
...book is full of Freeling's virtues. There are secondary characters so swiftly and seductively sketched that they threaten to run off into novels all their own. Still, most Freeling fans may wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...
Jobriath is claim amidst the clamorings. Motioning to the other musicians, he says, "That's Steve Love, Greg Diamond--as in bijou,--Jim Gregory, Hayden Wayne ... no, there isn't any name for the group. We're all the Jobriath's. He laughs, "We do have a lot of fun together, don't we boys...