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From the balmy streets of the Mozambique capital of Lourenço Marques on the Indian Ocean to the jungles of Guinea-Bissau on the Atlantic to the porticoed halls of Lisbon's presidential palace, the news announced last week by Portuguese President Antonio de Spinola was for the most part greeted with shouts and demonstrations...
...everyone was cheering. Even as Spinola was announcing Lisbon's new policy, the liner Infante Dom Henrique pulled out of Lourengo Marques with 1,100 tearful whites and their personal possessions. Airlines flying from Mozambique to Portugal were reported booked up until October. Those who have fled, either because they feared the uncertainties of the months ahead or retribution from a new black government, still represent less than 1% of the white population. But to many onlookers, the sailing of the Dom Henrique seemed a historic Portuguese retreat. Observed Joaquim Peres, a white businessman who will stay...
...well as on eyewitness accounts and newspaper stories that abound in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), persuades me to believe that nationalist forces of The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) have an upper hand in the armed conflict with the Portuguese. This is an aspect of the Portuguese-African relations Lisbon tried to conceal during the first few days following the April 25th coup d'etat. Yet hardly a month after the overthrow of the Caetano regime Antonio de Almeida Santos, a member of the provisional government set up after the coup and a minister in charge of Portugal's overseas...
Finally, a word about the caliber of leadership among African nationalist movements. Professor Rogers suggests that Guinea-Bissau alone has an able leadership ready to take over the reins of government and implies that Lisbon is in a position to groom leaders for both Mozambique and Angola. Apart from the fact that Lisbon has lost the colonial prerogative to decide "when the native is ready for independence," the fact of the matter is that thirteen years of fighting have produced a more seasoned leadership than four hundred years of Portuguese colonialism could master. In my opinion such leaders as Samora...
Obscure Choice. The swift turn of events climaxed the most uncertain week in Lisbon since the April coup and came as something of a rebuff to General António de Spinola, 64, the soldier-hero who has served since then as provisional President and has allowed an unprecedented measure of political freedom. Spinola's choice for Prime Minister after Palma Carlos' ouster had been conservative Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Mario Firmino Miguel. Instead, the A.F.M. chose one of its own: an obscure army colonel, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 53, a left-leaning officer-engineer...