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...most immediate test for the Spinola regime will be whether it can unite the country behind a common policy toward its three African territories -Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea. All the factions of the left want an immediate settlement with native guerrillas, while the right, supported by many whites in Angola and Mozambique, wants the fight against the guer rillas to go on unabated. In the book that sparked the coup, Portugal and the Future, Spinola himself talked vaguely about a federation of the territories. For their part, rebel groups in all three places have vowed to continue the battle...
...past 13 years, the Portuguese have been fighting guerrillas in all three of their African colonies of Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique. Now, following the coup in Lisbon, the territories are being promised at least partial freedom after nearly five centuries of Portuguese influence. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs visited Mozambique last week to sample the reaction. His report...
...Guinea, Spínola created a MacArthur-like aura around himself. His bushy eyebrows, the flashing monocle in his right eye-an adornment he picked up in Berlin-the gloves, and the riding crop he invariably carried were as well known to Portuguese troops as MacArthur's corncob pipe had been to Marines and G.I.s in the South Pacific. Unlike MacArthur, however, he believed in cultivating the enlisted man, and he would pop from his helicopter in hazardous spots to see personally how the fighting was going...
Though Spínola had worked in Guinea to involve the native population in the affairs of government-a sign perhaps that his own thinking was changing-few Portuguese were adequately prepared for the heretical turnabout of ideas in his book, Portugal and the Future, which came out last March and became Portugal's overnight bestseller (200,000 copies). In words that had an eerie echo of the arguments against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Spínola said what many in the country had been thinking: Portugal cannot win its African wars, and some political accommodation must...
...years, and his nails have been cared for by the same manicurist for 26 years. A teetotaler, he has stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them shipped home. He is an odd man indeed to inspire a liberal-leaning revolution, but he is perhaps the only man in Portugal who could have done...