Word: secessionist
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...military governor of the Portuguese Azores, last week warned that the islands would not accept a government that was unrepresentative of the Portuguese people. The statement was interpreted as a veiled threat that Magalhàes and the island's other military commanders may join forces with the secessionist Azorian Liberation Front (FLA) if near anarchy continues to dominate Portuguese politics. The right-wing FLA, which advocates independence for the Azores, has proved nettlesome in the past; late last month it fomented riots against Portuguese troops, closed down the radio station, and demanded a referendum on the question...
...Soviet-supported MPLA, which they rightly feel would prevent foreign exploitation of Angolan resources if it came to power. President Mobutu of Zaire plays the largest interventionary role. Despite the commitment of all three Angolan factions and the OAU to the territorial integrity of Angola, Mobutu has continuously fomented secessionist tendencies in the oil rich enclave of Cabinda, a fiefdom of Gulf Oil separated from the rest of the country by a piece of Zaire...
...Africa, after years of bloody anticolonial and civil wars, is quiet, but only relatively. The new military regime in Ethiopia is trying, without much success, to crush the twelve-year-old secessionist movement in the strategically important northern province of Eritrea. Last week, in the Red Sea port of Assab and the Eritrean capital of Asmara, fighting flared between the government and units of the 6,000-man-strong Eritrean Liberation Front, and rebel bombs and grenades exploded in crowded Asmara restaurants. With the government vowing to "beat back the bandits" (as it calls the rebels), fighting in northern Ethiopia...
...successful campaigns against the Somalis during the border fighting of the early 1960s, Aman had taken a conciliatory approach to such issues as student dissent, the fate of the detained ex-Ministers, and above all the problems faced by his home province of Eritrea, which has been torn by secessionist guerrilla violence ever since Ethiopia annexed...
...Case, 36, John W. Rogers, 50, both Texans, and Canadian Clifford James, 27, all employees of Tenneco, Inc., along with U.N. Geologist Matti Tavela, 54, an American working in Ethiopia-have been held. Their captors are members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which is waging a bloody secessionist battle. Tenneco has already agreed to an E.L.F. demand for $3 million in ransom, but the Ethiopian government refuses to meet another demand to release five jailed guerrillas. Meanwhile, the four captives survive mainly on a sour porridge called durra, the staple of the region. Not surprisingly, they have all lost...