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ATTENTION, ANGOLANS! read Portuguese newspaper ads last week. ALL PERSONS WHOSE NAMES ARE LISTED HERE SHOULD GO TO THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY ON A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM. The scores of people listed were refugees who had been airlifted to Lisbon from the former Portuguese province in 1975, when civil war threatened their lives and the prospect of a new Marxist government in Luanda threatened their property. The "matter of great importance" was approval of their longstanding applications to return to Angola. In a surprising reverse airlift, 569 refugees have already made the fateful trip back home, while some...
...Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Apparently willing to forgive and forget, Neto's government hopes that the returnees, many of whom are technicians, professionals and skilled workers, can help rebuild the devastated country. Says Luanda's ambassador to Lisbon, Adriano Sebastiao: "All skilled Angolan workers who want to return will have a job waiting for them. What we need to do now is reactivate the industries that closed down when the Portuguese left...
Even some Portuguese merchants and farmers whose property was expropriated by the Neto government are seeking to return. At a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Lisbon, set up to house would-be returnees, Dulce Pereira da Silva, 54, last week was waiting for a flight to take her back to the village of Musulo in northeast Angola, where she once owned a general store. Says she: "My son, who is a mechanic, is already working and I've had letters and phone calls from the family and they say everything is all right there." Angelino...
...return of refugees was worked out by Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes and Angolan President Neto last summer at a summit meeting in Guinea Bissau, another former African province of Lisbon. Until then, relations between Lisbon and Luanda had been virtually nonexistent because of Angola's expropriation of Portuguese property and Portugal's destruction of Angola's food-distribution system. At the meeting, Eanes and Neto agreed to exchange ambassadors, to settle the property issue and arrange for the voluntary return of refugees to Angola. It was later decided that the cost of repatriating the refugees would...
Nobre da Costa has no political following, but his specialty is managerial competence. Politically independent, but more centrist than the Socialists, he has managed to survive all the vicissitudes of Portuguese politics, largely as a result of his administrative skills. Educated in Lisbon and London, Nobre da Costa has been called a "supertechnocrat." For many years an employee of the Champalimaud industrial empire, Portugal's second largest financial complex, he once served as Minister of Industry in Soares' government - at Eanes' insistence. Nobre da Costa is known as a free-enterpriser who gets things done no matter...