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...prerogative to decide "when the native is ready for independence," the fact of the matter is that thirteen years of fighting have produced a more seasoned leadership than four hundred years of Portuguese colonialism could master. In my opinion such leaders as Samora Machel in Mozambique, Holden Roberto, Agostinho Neto and Jonas Savimbi in Angola and Luiz Cabral in Guinea-Bissau--to mention a few--have demonstrated a capacity for leadership that seems superior to Lisbon's crop of leadership during the past fifty years...
...colonialism. If it were to be a true federation, says Luis Cabral, a leader of Guinea's rebels, sheer weight of numbers would give the leadership to blacks. He adds sarcastically: "I'm sure Spinola wouldn't want a black government heading Portugal." Said Dr. Agostino Neto, an Angolan guerrilla leader: "What we want is to be completely free to determine the destiny of our own country. If all Lisbon has in mind is a federation-and not freedom-I think the war will continue...
Married. Marcia Kubitschek, 20, comely daughter of former (1956-61) Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, 50, who fathered the $600 million inland capital of Brasilia but ran afoul of the country's new revolutionary government, which recently stripped him of all political rights for ten years; and Baldomero Barbara Neto, 25, son of a wealthy Brazilian industrialist; in Lisbon...
...Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) is led by smooth. Sorbonne-educated Mario Pinto de Andrade, 34, a mulatto whose backing comes mainly from other assimilados, the educated half-castes who have long had full Portuguese citizenship; to widen its appeal, however, an Angolan black, Poet Agostinho Neto, was recently made M.P.L.A.'s nominal leader. Andrade, who, like most of Salazar's foes, is often denounced as a Communist, is an astute politician and an able organizer. He has built a nationwide following among the mulatto elite who would be the logical leaders of independent Angola...
Test Pilot. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, finally gratifying his long-felt urge to fly, ex-Aircraft Mechanic Olimpio Martines Neto, 27, hopped in a twin-engine DC-3 at the city airport, kept it aloft for three minutes, crash-landed in a crowded suburb, walked from the wreck with nothing more serious than a rip in the seat of his pants...