Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spies in the Consulates. The heavy hand of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's political police, the P.I.D.E., reached into every corner of the province. Some 150 Angolans were arrested and thrown in jail as politically suspect. Most conspicuous prisoner was the Roman Catholic vicar general of Angola, Msgr. Manuel Mendes das Neves, 70, a distinguished mulatto churchman whose principal crime was his outspoken sermons advocating African rights. All foreign newsmen are kept under surveillance, their phone calls tapped, their cables censored. Even foreign consulates are watched. Said one diplomat: "There is not a single local employee...
...Lisbon, the Salazar regime seemed determined to blame all its Angolan troubles on the U.S. The U.S.'s vote for a U.N. investigation of conditions in Angola was "the greatest political crime of the century," declared one government-controlled newspaper. In the tidy way things are done in Salazar's Portugal, anonymous pamphlets appeared in Lisbon's cafes and stores announcing a demonstration the next day at the U.S. embassy. When U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick requested protection,, the police advised him that they would be powerless to stop the demonstrators, sent only a token force...
...Azores," the mid-Atlantic Portuguese islands on which the U.S. Air Force maintains a vital stepping-stone base. Use of the base is governed by a bilateral agreement due to be renegotiated next year. What bothers some diplomats more is the possibility that Salazar, if pushed far enough, might yank Portugal out of NATO. But in the long run, Portugal is unlikely to desert the Western camp; Salazar needs the West as much as. or more than, the West needs...
...troubled Portuguese African colony of Angola, 150 settlers have been slaughtered in the past fortnight in a rash of terrorist raids led by Angola blacks who live near the Congolese border. Already Portuguese Dictator Antonio Salazar's forces have evacuated 3,500 terrified whites from northern Angola. Thirty thousand Portuguese soldiers crash about in pelting rainstorms, hunting the sizable terrorist bands thought to be still at large...
Portuguese officials insisted that the delirious joy in Portugal at the ship's return-and the failure of the revolt against Salazar-was equaled only by the joy in the "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...