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...nearby airport from a relief mission, was hit by two bullets as it made its final approach but managed to land safely. The incident was quickly reported to a Portuguese Airways Boeing 747 entering the pattern, causing the cautious pilot to change course and head back to Lisbon. Ironically, the jumbo jet was packed with leftist dignitaries from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Viet Nam who were heading to Luanda to attend the M.P.L.A.'s independence festivities. Thus the ranks of visiting VIPS in Luanda were embarrassingly thin...
...march of 60,000 construction workers on Lisbon's São Bento Palace last week started out like the countless other protest parades and rallies that are a recurring feature of life in Portugal these days. But then the leftist-led hardhats added a new twist. Massing on the steps of the legislative palace, they blocked the doors of the building in which 150 members of the constituent assembly were laboring over a new constitution. They also backed huge trucks against the entrances to Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo's official residence next door and warned that...
Portugal's 500-year-old colonial empire in Africa comes to an end this week. In accordance with instructions from Lisbon, the last Portuguese high commissioner in Angola, Admiral Leonel Cardoso, will lower his country's red, yellow and green flag at the 16th century stone fort of Sào Miguel in Luanda, the territory's capital. Then he plans to tuck it under his arm and-much to the annoyance of Angolans-sail off with it to Lisbon on a waiting Portuguese frigate. His unwillingness to hand over the flag with the reins of power...
...threat of all-out civil war has prompted a wholesale flight of whites. About 250,000 have left in the past two months, most via a massive airlift to Lisbon. There the disgruntled emigres are adding to conservative pressures on the government (see box page 44). Only about 10% of the 500,000 whites who lived in Angola when independence was first promised 18 months ago now remain in the territory...
About half of the former Angolans have gone to the impoverished north of Portugal, where many came from, looking for work and help from relatives. Every day the local papers are filled with lists of people seeking long-lost relations. About 250 have been put into Lisbon's Ritz Hotel for lack of space elsewhere. The rest of the refugees are living in wretched shantytown camps, in hospitals or schools. The government pays for this through a new agency, established to help the newcomers, with a budget of $160 million. Hundreds are squatters at Lisbon International Airport...