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...March 16, the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) sponsored a teach-in on the relationship of Gulf Oil Corporation to the national liberation struggle in Angola. Robert Van Lierop, a black American filmaker who had recently returned from Mozambique, another Portuguese colony, showed slides depicting life inside the liberated areas of that country. Then Van Lierop and Abel Guimares, a member of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) who is touring the United States, answered questions from the audience...
...teach-in also featured a slide-show presentation by Robert Van Lierop, a black American who recently returned from travelling with liberation forces in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique...
...Lierop compared the Portuguese a colonial efforts in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea to the American tactics in Southeast Asia. He cited the Portuguese reliance on air war, the used of napalm and anti-personnel bombs, and the use of helicopters in search-and-destroy operations...
...Portuguese commander in Mozambique is a friend of American General William Westmoreland," who formerly headed the U.S. Vietnam effort, Van Lierop said, "Like Westmoreland, he is always speaking of the light at the end of the tunnel...
...Lierop charged that the Portuguese in Mozambique attempt to "starve the guerrillas, terrorize the local population and destroy schools and hospitals in liberated areas," and he stressed that Portuguese tactics are the same in Angola...