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...reference to the U.S. presence there. He attacked "hidden hands" on Cyprus. He congratulated Portugal, regularly scored in the past by U.N. members as a colonial oppressor, for "reconciliation with the cause of liberty" in granting independence to Guinea-Bissau, and suggested that other Western powers might profit by Lisbon's example. Introducing Bouteflika to Ford later, Secretary of State Kissinger jokingly told the President, "I have never known him to be impartial...
...first TAP Airline jumbo jets begin arriving at Lisbon's Portela de Sacavém International Airport at 7:55 in the morning. By 10 o'clock customs and immigration offices are overflowing: upper-middle-class professional men with their well-dressed families "on holiday," civil servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have...
...Brass Bands. At Lisbon's port, the scene was much the same last week as the troopship Niassa arrived, carrying 1,400 soldiers from Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning...
...home-bound exodus could hardly have occurred at a worse time for the country's faltering economy. The country's work force is only about 3 million, and unemployment has been rising rapidly. Hundreds of small businesses have closed, and large companies are not expanding. Says one Lisbon businessman with companies in Africa: "We could not employ in Portugal more than a fraction of our people from down there who have asked us for jobs...
...happen in Mozambique, where Frelimo, the leftist, black-led guerrilla group, will have two-thirds of the government portfolios until next June, when full independence will be granted. Angered at news of the agreement, many Mozambican whites (2.7% of the population) charged that they had been sold out by Lisbon. They want to set up an independent, white-dominated government along the lines of regimes in neighboring Rhodesia and South Africa. Last week white settlers belonging to militant organizations-one ominously named the Dragons of Death-seized the radio station in Lourenço Marques, the territory's capital...