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...thus on hand to report Angola's worst racial flare-ups, in which nearly 40 were killed (see FOREIGN NEWS). Some of the perils of reporting Angola last week: one reporter critically injured; four expelled, and the films made by all cameramen (including Burke) mysteriously tampered with in Lisbon, en route...
...beyond the comprehension of Portuguese officials, who are agreed upon only one thing: that it cannot be their own fault. Governor Tavares said it was all the work of "Communist agitators," and promised to produce documents proving that the attacks had been organized abroad. Days passed without any documents. Lisbon declared that guns made in Czechoslovakia had been used by the attackers. A leading Luanda newspaper found another villain-foreign newspaper editors. It headlined a story that foreign reporters who asked permission to leave Angola were ordered by their head offices "to stay because important events were going to happen...
...tense atmosphere, a Portuguese army lieutenant one night shot and gravely wounded a British reporter because he was "prowling" in the lieutenant's garden. Several reporters were arrested and deported; cameras were seized and film was confiscated. Photographers' exposed negatives flown out of Angola were delayed in Lisbon long enough to destroy the undeveloped pictures-possibly with X rays or fluoroscopes. When the film reached home offices and was developed, it was blank. At week's end the jittery Portuguese reported beating off another assault on a Luanda prison and killing seven of the attackers...
...Portugal itself, aging but agile Dictator António Salazar was having trouble with his own aftermath of the Santa Maria. He decided to allow people to let off a little steam. Newspaper editors in Oporto and Lisbon were given permission to publish an open letter addressed to the government by three opposition leaders. "Speaking in the name of many we know," the petition asked for "a government capable of inspiring the confidence of the country," and demanded "restitution to the Portuguese of their fundamental liberties-those same liberties which the constitution promises and which have become, to our regret...
...navy, whose major elements are four destroyers, twelve frigates and three submarines scattered among Portugal's far-flung possessions. Galvão announced that he was headed for Angola, the Portuguese African colony where he was once inspector general. But when trouble erupted in neighboring Congo last year, Lisbon rushed several battalions of crack troops to Angola, which would be more than a match for Galvão's 70 rebels and whatever sympathizers he may have in the colony. Brazilian observers speculated that Galvão was simply cruising about in the Atlantic until newly elected President...