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...over a decade and a half of combat-tested savvy. They originally fought for the late Katangese separatist leader Moïshe Tshombe. After his defeat in 1963, they were forced into exile in Angola, then adopted by Portugal's secret police to fight Angolan liberation groups. Following Lisbon's 1974 revolution, which led to the dismantling of Portugal's African empire, the Katangese were virtually forced to side with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan civil war. Admiral Rosa Coutinho, the left-leaning Portuguese high commissioner...
Manuel's solution, ordered in 1497, , was to close the ports and force the Jews to be baptized or die. Thousands were ' herded into a Lisbon camp to face starvation and violence. Many committed suicide rather than convert; others were dragged by their hair or beards to the baptismal font. All Jewish children from ages two to ten were taken from their parents and placed in Catholic homes. Only after ten years were some Jews permitted to escape to Amsterdam or the Americas...
Public Burnings. Those who converted were designated "New Christians," but they continued to be hounded for 2½ centuries by the Inquisition, installed in 1536, and by zealot neighbors. In one Lisbon riot alone, in 1506, between 2,000 and 4,000 of the New Christians were slaughtered. The auto-da-fe-the parade and ritual sentencing of Jews and heretics, sometimes followed by spectacular public burnings -was not abolished in Lisbon until...
This is the Alentejo,* a sprawling province of gently rolling hills dotted with olive, cork and eucalyptus trees and punctuated by whitewashed villages, set between the bustling capital of Lisbon, the Spanish border and the Algarve seacoast. Despite its Old World customs and deceptively placid appearance, the region has changed drastically over the past two years. The Alentejo was once a feudal preserve of absentee landlords, poor tenant farmers who worked for as little as $2 a day, vast private hunting estates, and wasted land whose inhabitants often went hungry. Now it is a Communist stronghold...
...some ways has become a showcase of the revolution: 50,000 new jobs were created−thanks largely to millions of dollars loaned by the government for equipment and wages. Says Joaquim Pinto Parulas, a tractor driver who used to have to leave his family to work in Lisbon: "Now I am here all year and have plenty of work. The salary is not as high as in Lisbon, but we are happier on the land...