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...first I wouldn't have dreamed of honoring with my virility that woman with false eyelashes who smoked long cigarettes." In fact, not until he was promised a dowry of rifles, hatchets, knives and clothes did Obakharok, chief of a New Guinea headhunting tribe, agree to marry American Anthropologist Wyn Sargent last year. Sargent described her jungle adventures in the book My Life With the Headhunters, but this month Obakharok gave his own version of the tale in an interview with Paris-Match. Though his bride eschewed Max Factor for a coating of pig fat and soot, reports Obakharok...
...opening address scored imperialism in Southeast Asia, an obvious reference to the U.S. presence there. He attacked "hidden hands" on Cyprus. He congratulated Portugal, regularly scored in the past by U.N. members as a colonial oppressor, for "reconciliation with the cause of liberty" in granting independence to Guinea-Bissau, and suggested that other Western powers might profit by Lisbon's example. Introducing Bouteflika to Ford later, Secretary of State Kissinger jokingly told the President, "I have never known him to be impartial...
...Brass Bands. At Lisbon's port, the scene was much the same last week as the troopship Niassa arrived, carrying 1,400 soldiers from Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning...
...reverse diaspora from newly independent Guinea-Bissau and the soon-to-be-freed Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique could well amount to half a million people before it ends. In addition to thousands of white colonials who are fleeing the territories for fear of violence in the transitional months while political power is being transferred to the liberation movements, 150,000 Portuguese troops are slated to come home over the next two years...
...transfer of power has not made everyone happy, and Portugal's President António de Spínola, whose colleagues had overridden his pledge that independence would come only after a referendum in each territory, looked disgruntled as he signed the documents freeing Guinea-Bissau. In fact, he said not one word during the two-minute ceremony. He is so embittered by the rush toward decolonization that having twice tried but failed to gain for himself stronger powers, he is now said to be on the verge of resigning. He is certain that the guerrilla movements that...