Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responsible for the murder? Guinean President Sékou Touré, an ostensible friend who had allowed Cabral to make his headquarters in Conakry, initially blamed "hired murderers and mercenaries in the service of Portuguese colonialism." But Lisbon's denials ("We would rather face Cabral than anyone else") had the ring of truth. In Paris an association of Guinean exiles blamed Touré; they accused the highhanded Guinean dictator of encouraging Cabral's rivals in order to further his own designs on Portuguese Guinean territory...
...murderous rivalries within Cabral's independence movement. The mastermind of the plot, said Touré, was Inocentio Camil, a top aide in Cabral's African Party for the Independence of (Portuguese) Guinea and Cape Verde (islands), known by its initials in Portuguese as PAIGC. As the Guinean leader told it, the assassins, after killing Cabral, kidnaped several other party members, tortured them, marched them aboard a fishing boat belonging to the PAIGC "navy," and sailed out of Conakry harbor bound for Bissau, the capital of Portuguese Guinea. Touré's patrol boats cut them off and captured...
From these days comes the contention that the African territories are Portuguese because Portugal created them. "The Guinean, Angolan and Mozambican people lack national traditions," Premier Caetano says, "since it is only the Portuguese language and Portuguese sovereignty that confer personality and unity on them...
...Ghana's ex-dictator Kwame Nkrumah, 62, has lived in neighboring Guinea-of which he is officially "co-President"-since his overthrow in 1966. He is now apparently succumbing to cancer, probably in a hospital in Conakry, the Guinean capital...
...nations, the Congo and Nigeria. No fewer than 28 countries have experienced either a coup or a serious disturbance. Ten have been forced to call in foreign troops for help. Last month Guinea was invaded by a 350-man band that may have included Portuguese troops as well as Guinean dissidents...