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...statement proved somewhat exaggerated. But if Lisbon's sprawling, 500-year-old African outback wasn't being liquidated last week, it was certainly under siege-together with its neighbor and partner, South Africa. Having called the Security Council into session, the 32-nation African bloc demanded that 1) Portugal get out of her colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, and 2) the world help throttle South Africa's apartheid regime. Behind both demands lay a deeper motive: to eliminate the last strongholds of white rule on the Dark Continent...
...Portugal that could be used for "repression of the peoples." Although Washington has already curtailed such arms, the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson balked, pleaded that the U.N. should stick to persuasion. A watered-down resolution, which passed 8 to 0, "requests" the arms embargo and "urgently calls upon" Lisbon to free its colonies. The U.S. still abstained...
...final draft, he was abruptly overruled by Washington, possibly because the U.S. is renegotiating a lease with Portugal for use of the Azores. Leaving the way open for future action, the resolution directs Secretary-General U Thant to report by Oct. 31 on Portugal's response. In Lisbon, a Foreign Ministry official said: "We've been stubborn for centuries and aren't going to change...
...diplomatic port of call. Lisbon is hardly on the grand circuit. It provides such minor challenges as working for steady trade in wine, sardines and cork. There are also the knotty problems of negotiating the renewal of a treaty for continued use of U.S. military bases in the Azores*and of smoothing out relations ruffled by U.S. support of U.N. anticolonial resolutions involving the Portuguese colony of Angola. To make way for Anderson, the present ambassador, C. Burke Elbrick, 55, a career diplomat who has held the Lisbon post since 1958, will be reassigned...
...Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign in Lisbon. Despite the steady rise in the guerrillas' strength and effectiveness, Salazar's best hope of victory lies in the bitter enmity between the two nationalist movements that are struggling to win Angola's independence...