Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leftist Gains. The disorder offended Spinola's sense of discipline. Moreover, his plan for dealing with Portugal's African territories was being resisted by his junta colleagues. He had envisioned Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola forming a loose federation with Portugal. Leftists within the M.F.A. sided with revolutionaries in the territories and demanded complete independence. In June 1974, Spinola barnstormed across Portugal, visiting army bases and addressing enthusiastic crowds. His message: Portugal's revolution must not be exploited by extremists...
Third Truce. Unlike Portugal's other former territories-Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, the Cape Verde Islands, Sào Tomé and Príncipe-the transfer of power in Angola has been complicated by the fact that there are three rival liberation groups. To patch up their differences, Agostinho Neto, 52, head of the Moscow-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), Holden Roberto, 50, leader of the Peking-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), and Jonas Savimbi, 40, head of the moderate National Union for Total Independence of Angola (U.N.I.T.A.), met in Kenya...
Among the more inspired bits of rhetoric was Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...
Ludvik Vaculik's novel The Guinea Pigs (NY: Third Press) is a most brilliant venture in the Kafka-esque vein. Like Joseph K. in The Trail, Vaculik's hero is a bank employee. He lives a petty monotonous life with his wife Eva, "two tolerable little boys" and a couple of newly acquired guinea pigs that soon become the center of the family life. Our clerk works in a weird bank; enigmatic employees of the bank walkd out everyday with some of the bank notes in their pockets. Sometimes the money is confiscated by the guards at the exit...
...connection with the first Okean. Even without computers, however, it was obvious that the Soviets had also practiced air reconnaissance and antisubmarine warfare, using not only ships but land-based aircraft, including the intercontinental-range nuclear bomber "Backfire," and TU-95 "Bears" flying out from Cuba and Guinea...