Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, Harvard opposed a similar resolution direct at Gulf and announced its vote routinely along with 25 others. It also abstained from a vote calling on Phillips Petroleum to remove its operations from another embattled Portuguese colony, Guinea-Bissau. It is a sign of the times that no one seemed to care...
...dependent on a resolution of the fighting in Africa. Already the junta has gone beyond what Spinola last month envisioned for the three territories: a loose federation with Lisbon. Full independence is now regarded as inevitable. Talks have already begun in London with the representatives of insurgents in Guinea, smallest of the territories and the one that Portugal finds it easiest to set free...
Angola and Mozambique are more troublesome. Both have large white populations and big Portuguese economic investments. In neither territory, moreover, can the principal guerrilla movements claim, as they can in Guinea, to speak for most blacks. Yet unrest in Portugal makes one thing clear: the country has no more stomach for war in Africa, and the junta will have to grant the African territories freedom, whatever its shape and form. "There is no doubt about it," says Henrique Scares de Melo, a white lawyer in Mozambique who is expected to be named soon to head an interim territorial government...
Grim Outlook. While the situation inside Portugal was for the moment merely unsettled, the outlook in the country's African territories was getting grim. The junta wants to elevate Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique and Angola to membership in a multiracial federation in which the territories would be granted a measure of autonomy but not independence. This scheme satisfies neither the colonialists nor the colonials. General Francisco Costa Gomes, the armed forces commander in chief, made a sudden flying visit to Angola to reassure the 750,000 white settlers there that "Mother Portugal" would not abandon them. He was obviously concerned...
...famine is rampant in Ethiopia, the African nations of the Sahel (Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta), Gambia and in areas of Tanzania and Kenya. Near famine also plagues Bolivia, Syria, Yemen and Nigeria. One poor harvest could bring massive hunger to India, the Sudan, Guyana, Somalia, Guinea and Zaire. In two dozen other nations, the populace faces chronic food shortages. Among them: Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti...