Word: luanda
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...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...
...cannot be their own fault. Governor Tavares said it was all the work of "Communist agitators," and promised to produce documents proving that the attacks had been organized abroad. Days passed without any documents. Lisbon declared that guns made in Czechoslovakia had been used by the attackers. A leading Luanda newspaper found another villain-foreign newspaper editors. It headlined a story that foreign reporters who asked permission to leave Angola were ordered by their head offices "to stay because important events were going to happen...
...negatives flown out of Angola were delayed in Lisbon long enough to destroy the undeveloped pictures-possibly with X rays or fluoroscopes. When the film reached home offices and was developed, it was blank. At week's end the jittery Portuguese reported beating off another assault on a Luanda prison and killing seven of the attackers...