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Around the entire perimeter of Angola's breezy seaport capital of Luanda ran an illuminated wire fence. Portuguese patrols checked every car entering and leaving the city. To the north, near the Congolese border, Portuguese army units beat through the 12-ft.-high elephant grass, warily on the watch for ambush; overhead, planes from Portugal's antiquated air force rolled lazily, occasionally dropping firebombs into the impenetrable forests to smoke out the enemies they knew were there...
...face of it, there is no apartheid in Angola. Under paternalistic Portuguese rule, the races have mixed so freely that Angola has a proportionately high mulatto population. Some natives with ability have been allowed to earn good money, and today in Luanda's Continental Hotel it is common to see whites waiting on blacks. But the vast majority of Africans have been kept down by almost total lack of education and by labor laws which kept them in near bondage. These laws are now being overhauled...
...displeasure of its NATO allies by supporting an Afro-Asian resolution in the U.N. Security Council calling for an investigation of Portugal's police action in Angola. The expected reaction ranged from cool disapproval in London and Paris to violent attacks on the U.S. in Lisbon and Luanda. Last week the U.S. again chose to stand on its anticolonial convictions even at the risk of embarrassing a European ally...
Coming a Cropper? The snowballing revolt has already proved economically crippling. One-fourth of the population of Luanda, Angola's capital city, is unemployed, as are some 16,000 refugees who have streamed into Luanda from the ravaged north. Portugal's $20 million loan to Angola for development is being used to finance the garrisons; there is no foreign investment coming into Angola and no development capital available. Worst of all, next month Angola's $55 million coffee crop, which provides 40% of Angola's national output, comes to harvest. Most of the crop...
...troops drawn from the tribesmen of lower Angola, who cordially hate the northerners who are leading the rebellion. Next month an additional 25,000 troops are expected from Portugal. In the meantime, the frightened authorities have supplied guns to civilians, who sometimes take justice into their own hands. In Luanda, civilian vigilantes raided São Paolo suburb to hunt for "suspected arms," shot down 33 Africans at random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation...