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...power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told Griggs: "I am Angolan, born here. My skin is white, but I am not Portuguese in my heart. There are good people in this country, many of them mulatto or black. If they get control here after independence, all will be well. But if the wild...
...perch in the Golden Cage belongs to Speaker Celso Lisboa, 45. The owner of a private school, Lisboa got himself elected in 1950, proved himself a warm friend of the thousands of school-age children in Rio who are deprived of an education by lack of buildings and teachers. He pushed through a bill authorizing the city administration to pay private-school board and tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March...
...threw the switch on Lisboa's joy train is a Rio reporter named Fidelis Amaral Netto. Running himself for a house seat in next October's elec tions, Amaral Netto a fortnight ago confronted the speaker and his cronies during a TV debate. Amaral Netto pointed out that salaries for civil servants attached to the 63-member federal senate are $1,000.-000 a year, and those of the 326-member federal chamber of deputies are $1,890,-000. How, he asked, could these expenses of Rio's 50-aldermen house...
...working properties. But only in recent decades have Brazilians recognized that the church itself is a priceless part of the nation's heritage, largely because of the brooding presence of twelve soapstone prophets sculpted for the stairway (see opposite) by Brazil's first great sculptor, Antonio Francisco Lisboa...
...Real name: Antonio Francisco Lisboa...