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...folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon's colonial presence in an African territory that until 15 months ago the Portuguese had vowed they would never surrender...
...there has been an impressive 3% yearly increase in crop output. Mechanization has not yet made much headway, and work in the fields is as backbreaking as it has been for centuries. "For years the West has had an urban preoccupation," says a senior South Korean official, sounding vaguely Maoist. "Yet in modern Asian history it has been the peasantry which has been the moving force. We have tilted the allocation of resources toward the countryside...
...cover for international capitalism," and that "the socialism we are constructing in Portugal could spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members of the M.R.P.P. Among the charges: spreading "false Maoist leftism," kidnaping, and beating and arresting several people during the previous week, including two American Marine guards...
...President Ferdinand Marcos explained last week, the Philippines are directly threatened not by external aggression but by "indigenous rebel forces" that get "arms, funds and supplies" from outside. Marcos was referring to two movements. One is the 2,000-member Maoist New People's Army, which may be receiving weapons and ammunition from Peking for its terrorist activities in the hill country of southern Luzon. More serious is a Moslem insurgency movement in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, which demands creation of a Moslem-run semiautonomous state...
...police action by joining the radicals in a coalition calling for President Kirk's resignation." On the eve of the Harvard occupation, SDS itself defeated a motion calling for immediate seizure of a building each of the three times it was proposed. But the next day, the Maoist Worker. Student Alliance caucus of SDS moved in. It was only President Pusey's order for outside police to evacuate the building that "radicalized" other students, and made a strike possible. Surveys show that 82 per cent of Harvard students opposed the sit-in but 78 per cent rejected the calling...