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...colony of Angola and irritated the dictator with a report denouncing Portuguese mistreatment of the Angolans. Jailed in Portugal, Galvão continued to write, and smuggle out, pamphlets attacking Salazar's rule. Sentenced to an additional twelve years' imprisonment, he feigned illness, was sent to a Lisbon hospital and walked out disguised as a doctor. Escaping Portugal, Galvão went first to the Argentine and turned up in Venezuela in November 1959, where he got in touch with other exiled leaders of the Portuguese Liberation Junta, a widespread but ineffectual anti-Salazar group. His plan...
...other countries stand for a true level of culture!" The embarrassed Salazar government conceded that Delgado won 23% of the presidential vote and promptly fired him from his job as director of civil aeronautics. Loudly insisting he had actually won the election, Delgado hid out for three months in Lisbon's Brazilian embassy until he got a safe-conduct to leave the country...
...Lisbon, the Salazar government spluttered denunciations of the "wicked act committed by this gang of pirates," and likened it to "the barbarian practices that made the Caribbean Sea an area of dishonor, which took centuries to clean up." Panic-stricken that a similar fate might be in store for the Santa Maria's sister ship, the Vera Cruz, which was en route to Brazil, Lisbon rushed ten secret servicemen by plane to Rio de Janeiro with orders to allow no visitors aboard when the Vera Cruz docked. The Portuguese government appealed to the U.S. and Britain to recapture...
...territories straddle the continent's southern stem and cover an area as large as Western Europe. One is square, massive Angola (pop. 4,500,000), which sprawls below the Congo along 1,100 miles of the western Atlantic shore, where Lisbon's navigators arrived in the isth century. Across the continent is the other half of Dictator-Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's African empire, Mozambique (pop. 6,300,000), whose Indian Ocean ports are among the best on the east coast. In both, the populations are sealed off from the outside world with ruthless...
...lasting than Belgian policy in the Congo. Although higher education technically is open to all, the cost is prohibitive for blacks. In all Angola there are only 200 Africans in high school; Mozambique boasts just 50, and has produced only one college graduate, a young African who went to Lisbon University on the proceeds of a lucky lottery ticket. For indigenas, this paucity of educational opportunity hardly eases the path toward the precious status of assimilado, which promises total equality with the whites for those who can speak Portuguese fluently and adopt European modes of life (i.e., live...