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...village of Boa Nuta was first strafed, then raided by troops in trucks. They shot and killed his father and brother, left him for dead with his left buttock shot away. "I estimate we've killed 30,000 of these animals already," bragged one Portuguese army officer in Luanda. "There are perhaps 100,000 of them in revolt-and we intend to kill every one of them when the dry season starts late...
Although scarcely a shot was fired last week, Portugal's African "province" of Angola was in a state of panic. Fearful settlers from the back country streamed into Luanda with wives, children and household goods. They besieged airlines and shipping companies for passage home. Depositors stood in long lines outside Luanda banks, waiting to withdraw their money. In the northern region near the Congo, where some 200 settlers were massacred by black Angolan raiders last month, the Portuguese army issued submachine guns to the few settlers who chose to remain, and ordered them to spend their nights herded together...
...Angola's capital city of Luanda, it was the whites who got out of hand. Infuriated by the U.S. vote fortnight ago in favor of a disapproving Security Council resolution aimed at Portuguese rule in Angola, 400 Portuguese settlers rioted for two hours outside the U.S. consulate in Luanda. Shouting "Down with Communism and the partners of the Soviets!" the mob overturned Consul William Gibson's car and, while cops made themselves scarce, dumped it into Luanda harbor...
...with Algeria, Kenya and Rhodesia-could be entirely happy with the U.S. decision, although Stevenson was quick to reaffirm the U.S.'s traditional friendship with its oldest allies. Portugal, as expected, fired off angry blasts at Washington, and in retaliation ordered seven U.S. Navy weather planes to leave Luanda immediately. The U.S. could only say in answer that in time to come, Portugal and other U.S. allies in Europe might be grateful that they had an ally who had established its good faith with the anticolonialist nations of Africa and Asia...
...overseas provinces" of the nation's far-flung empire. But then officials were stunned by news of renewed and savage rioting in Portugal's restless African colony of Angola, and began spluttering denials of the reports trickling out through the colonial censorship. From the capital city of Luanda came word that swarms of Africans hurled themselves against a police station and were methodically mowed down by automatic weapons in the hands of paratroops and police. A Luanda cab driver told reporters that he saw five trucks loaded with corpses driven out to a mass burial in the bush...