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...night of February 3, 1961, the MPLA-their slogan "Victory is Certain"-responded by attacking a police patrol, the Prison of Sao Paulo, a police barracks, and the radio station of the capital city, Luanda. On the following day, February 4, the infuriated Portugese retaliated with a random massacre of Africans. By March there was a revolt led by another nationalist organization, the UPA, among the black peasants in the northwest of Angola, and liberation forces took control, of more than one third of the country, including the Cabinda enclave, where Gulf Oil Corporation had been making drilling explorations since...
...aircraft from overflying their territories. S.A.A. rerouted all its flights over Libya. But then Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which so far has not joined the ban), Luanda, capital of Portuguese Angola, and Las Palmas in the Spanish Canary Islands (see map). The "apartheid route" takes about 900 miles and two hours longer to Europe, costs an estimated $3,000 more to operate each way, so that S.A.A. may well be hard pressed to preserve its share...
...South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman assured everyone that the island-hopping detour is every bit as safe as the old routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat places as Luanda and Las Palmas, and a Cape Town columnist eloquently extolled the uses of adversity. "Boycotts have turned us into smarter salesmen," the pundit wrote. "Arms embargoes have forced us to make our own weapons, and the air ban has sent a patriotic thrill running down the South African Airways fuselage...
Technically, Moise Tshombe is still eligible to run for office in East Katanga. But since much of Tshombe's political strength lies with the Luanda tribe, now isolated in the new Lualaba province, his chances might be slim. Though Tshombe still has considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says...
...going up, while foreign consortiums are preparing to tap Angola's oil and mineral resources. But the Portuguese keep such tight control over the use of foreign funds that many investors are scared off. New hospitals are being built in the bush, and bulldozers are plowing through Luanda's disgraceful slums, preparing new housing projects. A crash program to build new schools should double Angola's school population by 1963. Fortnight ago, the Portuguese government agreed to the opening of Angola's first university next October...