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...refer this time to the second article on Angola by Mr. Peter Shapiro (September...
...noted that in Angola there has been "an industrial boom in the past decade." This is true, and he would also have been correct had he made mention of the boom in agriculture, transportation, communications, education, health services, etc. But Mr. Shapiro preferred instead to imagine guerrilla activities in Cabinda, which he did not see. Also, he cites some statistical figures which are blatantly distorted, and misrepresents some facts...
...Shapiro states that in Angola "no budget has yet been made up for the current fiscal year." He is obviously under the impression that the Portuguese fiscal years begins in June as in the United States. He makes no effort to verify the accuracy of this assumption or information. In fact, the Portuguese fiscal years begins in January. The budget published for the year 1972 is currently in force, and a copy of it can be consulted in this Embassy...
...fashionable notion that the current younger generation is the 'most intelligent' or the 'best informed' in recent history is one that has been repeated so often that it is considered by many to be virtually axiomatic, although it has been convincingly challenged by Karl Shapiro, among others. As for the allegation that it is also the 'most idealistic,' this would be difficult to reconcile with such evidence...
Regarding race relations, Mr. Shapiro merely cites a few unauthenticated incidents of alleged racism which, even if they were true, would have no significance in the total context of the existing multiraciality...