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...meager national budget to fight the African insurgencies. During the past five years, it has spent no less than $1.5 billion on African development. As a result of this vainglorious effort, concludes TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs after a visit to Portugal's three African "states," Lisbon can probably hold on there as long as it is prepared to pay the heavy price...
...seat of power, however, will remain in Lisbon, where it has been located for 500 years. As a Portuguese official in the Angolan capital of Luanda put it recently, "The issue of independence simply does not arise." Although only Angola provides a net profit for the mother country (through oil, coffee and diamond exports), the Portuguese are determined to maintain their presence in Africa, however great the cost...
Cheap Sensation. From his ranch outside Lisbon, Roosevelt denied the charges, described Mastriana's story as "absolutely fantastic" and accused the subcommittee of using his name "to get a cheap sensational headline." Roosevelt demanded a public apology from Senator Jackson and offered to testify publicly in his own behalf...
...government's preliminary inquiry showed a massacre of 400 villagers "could not have taken place." A Catholic bishop in Mozambique who in published reports claimed that he had seen the dead bodies later stubbornly declined either to confirm or deny that there had been a massacre. In Lisbon, officials insisted that Wiriyamu did not even exist. Indeed, Father Hastings two weeks ago placed it in western central Mozambique, but next day corrected himself, saying it was in the eastern Tete province. Reporters have been searching for it ever since, and for anyone who claims to have seen the massacre...
...writer-defendants, all in their 30s and all mothers of small children, are Maria Velho da Costa and Maria Isabel Barreno, both published novelists who do research for Portugal's Ministry of Economics, and Maria Teresa Horta, a well-known poet who edits the literary supplement of a Lisbon newspaper. The book they put together from their writings-they collaborated through an exchange of views in letters and at weekly lunches and dinners-is no mere feminist tract but a work of literary merit. It is now being translated into several languages and will be published...