Word: luanda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families "on holiday," civil servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have six months vacation now, but I will go back and work for the new government-if they don't throw...
...take their chances. President António de Spínola's assurances that there will be an orderly transfer of power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told Griggs: "I am Angolan, born here. My skin is white, but I am not Portuguese in my heart. There are good people in this...
...seat of power, however, will remain in Lisbon, where it has been located for 500 years. As a Portuguese official in the Angolan capital of Luanda put it recently, "The issue of independence simply does not arise." Although only Angola provides a net profit for the mother country (through oil, coffee and diamond exports), the Portuguese are determined to maintain their presence in Africa, however great the cost...
From 1946 to 1970, Tsumeb paid South Africa approximately $140 million in taxes. Ratledge claims that the building of the Capetown to Luanda Highway (a strategic supply route to the Portuguese in their fight against the Angolan liberation movement and an element in South Africa's defense of its northwestern boundaries) was financed with Tsumeb's contribution...
...following weeks saw wholesale rioting throughout the city. The whites, better armed, inflicted, the most casualties. One missionary personally counted 300 dead in the first three days. By the end of the month, the fighting subside, and Luanda lapsed into a state of anxious tension...