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...blacks) is the smallest problem. It will be the first territory to be given independence. The nationalist African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (P.A.I.G.C.) declared a republic last year, which is now recognized by 80 countries, including the Soviet Union. Portuguese authorities said that Lisbon will almost certainly recognize the existing government...
...Lisbon's decision to grant independence to its African colonies had been a much-discussed possibility ever since the April coup in which dissident army officers overthrew the right-wing dictatorship of Marcello Caetano. One of the officers' main goals was to stop the wars in the colonies, which consumed 40% of the Portuguese budget and struck many of the young soldiers as the arrogant actions of a dying empire. But no one thought independence would be achieved quite so soon-or quite so easily. Portuguese right-wingers, and even some Liberals, were religiously convinced of Portugal...
...blacks) could have trouble. It has close economic links with South Africa, where apartheid supporters might try to foment a separatist movement among Mozambique's whites. Still, the transition will be greatly eased by the fact that there is only one liberation group, Frelimo, which enjoys recognition in Lisbon as the voice of most Mozambicans...
...Angola (500,000 whites, 250,000 mestizos, 6 million blacks), a coffee-producing territory on the Atlantic, is the richest of the colonies. Although relations between the races have been relatively good, there were recent riots. The territory has three active liberation movements, all vying for power. Lisbon hopes to form a coalition government that includes members of all three as well as the European population...
...successful transition to independence will depend at least as much on the cooperation of the white minorities as on that of blacks. Right-wing extremists bent on sabotaging Lisbon's policy of self-determination still pose a threat...