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...determination not to see white settler interests sold down the river in the territories. However it was meant, liberation-movement leaders at the annual meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia, of the Organization of African Unity-composed of 42 African states-read neocolonialism into every word. Declared Frelimo Vice President Marcelino dos Santos: "Our attacks will be maintained and even increased until independence is conceded under the sole leadership of Frelimo." At week's end, talks with Guinean liberation leaders, which had been transferred from London to Algiers, were broken off as the two sides were "about to sign an agreement...
...popularity. As he left the palace after his inauguration, 15,000 citizens cheered him, and his Mercedes was showered with white carnations. The frosty general broke into a rare smile and returned his supporters' V-for-victory sign. Even an obscure left-wing splinter group called Movimento Anarquista dos Homosexuais Revolucionários pledged its unswerving loyalty to the new regime. Another band of anarchists marched into a government office demanding recognition as a "democratic opposition." When an official patiently explained that the government itself was now democratic, the firebrands shouted "Viva Spinola!" and withdrew to "reorganize...
There had been fears that the Governor General, Manuel Pimentel Dos Santos, a hardliner, would not accept dismissal by Junta Leader General Antónío Spínola, and would instead declare Mozambique a white independent nation. But Army Commander in Chief General Basto Machado sent a company of paratroopers from the northern combat area to Lourenço Marques as a precaution, and in the end, Dos Santos and his family flew quietly back to Lisbon. In the African possessions of Angola and Portuguese Guinea also, the Governors General peacefully surrendered their jobs. Nonetheless, in all three...
...careful about what they wrote; Japanese correspondents were summoned to the Information Office and given a stern dressing down on past dispatches discrediting Park's authoritarian regime. To underline the threat, the Japanese ambassador was told to caution his country's reporters about Park's new dos and don'ts. South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) was given power to investigate the constitution's critics, and army generals were appointed to head the courts-martial that would try offenders. The national police were placed on round-the-clock duty, and uniformed policemen...
...wife wrong by staying too late in the Four-way Grill in Memphis and calling home and telling her he was working late, and she walked out on him taking all the furniture. He did his version of Conway Twitty, and damn if two blondes, with piled-up hair-dos like you see at Wallace rallies, didn't stand and shout Let me hear ya, O.B.! He did a couple more country tunes from other people and twisted and grinned and showed with his voice what the most doubtful of those lyrics really mean. He made jokes about how people...