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...Rhodesia and South Africa, the reaction was one of extreme nervousness at the possibility that Lisbon might find some accommodation with black guerrillas and break the solid front of white governments in the southern half of the continent. Rhodesia's position might become untenable if Mozambique turned hostile and its lifeline to the sea were broken; South Africa could only shudder at the possibility of unfriendly black governments on its northern borders. To forestall that possibility, Johannesburg might even send its efficient military into both territories. "We cannot make big concessions here, even if Lisbon orders them," one Portuguese...
Exactly what the new government in Lisbon will do in Africa is unclear, but if it follows the prescription of Spínola's book, it will not simply dismantle the empire it began 500 years ago, following the discoveries of the great Portuguese explorers* who were first sent out by Prince Henry the Navigator. Spínola, instead, talks of a federation of Portugal and its territories, with real autonomy-but not independence-for the Black African majorities. "Self-determination should not be confused with independence," he said last week. How such an arrangement would work in practice...
...would give the leadership to blacks. He adds sarcastically: "I'm sure Spinola wouldn't want a black government heading Portugal." Said Dr. Agostino Neto, an Angolan guerrilla leader: "What we want is to be completely free to determine the destiny of our own country. If all Lisbon has in mind is a federation-and not freedom-I think the war will continue...
...believe-that Portugal would be too weak to stand up to other European nations, particularly Spain, if it let go its ancient overseas inheritance. "If we lost our African territories, we would be under the economic influence of Spain," argues Manuel José Homen de Mello, former manager of Lisbon's daily A Capital. "We went to sea because we didn't want to be Spaniards." Adds a former Cabinet Minister: "We have only one powerful neighbor, and the Spaniards have always dreamed, as they are dreaming this very day, of marching in and swallowing...
...with ribbons and medals, he was made second in command of Portugal's National Republican Guard, a paramilitary police force. In 1968 he was sent back to Africa as commander in chief and military governor of the territory of Portuguese Guinea, where he served until he returned to Lisbon last summer to receive the Order of the Tower and the Sword with Palm, Portugal's highest military honor, and to become deputy chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a post set up specially...