Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salazar has no illusions about his task in Angola: "It is not going to be easy to normalize the situation. We will have to spend a great deal of money on armaments and troops. But even if we manage to put down the rebellion, we still face an even more difficult and serious problem: to make the colored element return to work once again in peace with the white element. The work of a century, overturned in a month...
...himself Salazar disclaimed any color prejudice: "I have many Negro friends," he said. "Both the doctor who handles my lab exams and my X-ray diagnostician are colored." On the other hand, he added, "No one is more racist than the Negro toward the white...
...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...
...Lisbon docks, long lines of Jeeps and trucks waited for the next ship to Africa. At the airfields, planes loaded with paratroopers took off and headed south. Dictator Premier António de Oliveira Salazar was marshaling his forces to extirpate the black rebels of Angola, Portugal's richest overseas possession...
...Although Salazar's censors tried to hide the fact, the revolt in northern Angola smoldered on unchecked. In one month, if reports trickling out from the scene could be believed, terrorists had killed 350 white Portuguese. Gangs of Africans armed with long-bladed panga knives were attacking isolated farmhouses of Portuguese settlers. Excited reports from up-country told of five whites and two Africans holding off a band of attackers at the village of Lucunga until their ammunition ran out and they were overrun and hacked to pieces. The terrorists also were attacking blacks loyal to the regime...