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THIS WEEK the United Nations followed the lead of 70 nations in recognizing the newly independent Guinea-Bissau. The United States, with characteristic indifference, abstained from the General Assembly roll-call vote...
Liberation was no small feat for the revolutionary African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, which mobilized opposition to Portuguese domination of the nation's blacks. The PAIGC freed Guinea-Bissau from the yoke of four centuries of Portuguese colonialism that continues to oppress Mozambique and Angola...
...demanding more civil rights and questioning the country's 500-year-old commitment to the African colonies. Portugal clings desperately to overseas territories whose combined area is 23 times its own size. It spends from 35% to 40% of its budget fighting insurgents in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea; through a four-year draft, it sends its most skilled young manpower to the African wars...
...have a large number of Marxists who came to this area from all parts of the country, and they're using Berkeley as a guinea pig," he said. "This is the start. It's going to spread to Madison, Wis., and Cambridge, Mass., and places like that...
Perdue condemned the government's use of agent-provacateurs in creating conspiracy cases. He said, "the government wanted to use these tactics against all movement organizations but chose the VVAW as the final Guinea pigs...