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...LUANDA. Angola--There is no atmosphere of war in this African city, the capital of Portugal's largest and richest colony. There is none of the tension that a visitor would expect to find in a country which has now seen continual guerrilla warfare for nearly 12 years. No soldiers march through the streets by day or haunt the city's bars by night...
...educated blacks, who have become completely assimilated into the Portuguese way of life, still face discrimination. A mulatto lawyer who works as legal counsel to a large foreign firm was turned away when he applied for an apartment in one of Luanda's high-class districts. Other educated blacks report their advancement frustrated by increasingly stiff barriers to promotion as they rise in the economic hierarchy...
...small furniture factory in Luanda, a black man and a white man sit beside each other doing identical labor making the legs of a chair. The black is paid 70 cents a day; the white gets...
Nonetheless, Galvao's announced plans brought dozens of journalists to Luanda for the first time. Eager to display their case before a watching foreign audience, a small group of mostly mulatoo intellectuals decided to launch an attack on Luanda main political prison...
...Portugese responded as if their one eye had been put out. they conducted a savage witch-hunt, arresting and executing any who were suspected of being leaders or potential leaders of the liberation movement. Along the railway line from Luanda to Malanje in the interior, troops, police, and militia massacred Africans at will. Using weapons donated by NATO countries, the Portugese re-won control of most of their colony. Liberation forces scattered to isolated forest areas where they remain in control to this day. All told, up to 50,000 Africans are said to have died in the 1961 fighting...