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...Specter of Violence. Grudgingly, Portugal has allowed an infusion of foreign capital; hydroelectric plants and factories are going up, while foreign consortiums are preparing to tap Angola's oil and mineral resources. But the Portuguese keep such tight control over the use of foreign funds that many investors are scared off. New hospitals are being built in the bush, and bulldozers are plowing through Luanda's disgraceful slums, preparing new housing projects. A crash program to build new schools should double Angola's school population by 1963. Fortnight ago, the Portuguese government agreed to the opening...
Despite such important but belated measures, there still hangs over the country the specter of future violence. Portugal's victory over the rebels was greatly aided by the bitter hostility between Holden Roberto's U.P.A. (Union of the Angolan Peoples) and the Communist-backed M.P.L.A. (Movement for the Liberation of Angola) led by Mario de Andrade, a Sorbonne-educated, Red-lining mulatto. The rival groups often seemed to hate each other worse than they hated the Portuguese; both Roberto and Andrade were the targets of assassination attempts by the other faction. Should the two organizations ever reach...
...glasses on the way. But behind the cheers and the swirling flags lay a new threat to the tortured country. Now that the terror campaign waged by the Secret Army against the Moslems had at long last subsided, the Moslems began to fight among themselves, haunted by the familiar specter of all successful revolutions: fratricidal war between the moderate and extremist wings...
Radioactive Clouds. What frightened the world more than the specter of Soviet military might was the reappearance, after a three-year absence, of a much-feared, fiercely debated and vastly misunderstood phenomenon: radioactive fallout. With radioactive clouds from the Soviet tests spinning around the earth, fallout was on almost everybody's mind. U.S. housewives worried that their milk might be contaminated by the tests or that their children might get cancer. The Finns worried that their reindeer meat might become radioactive when reindeers munched on contaminated lichen. Great Britain set up plans for rationing baby foods and dried milk...
Macario (Azteca). The Day of the Dead. All over Mexico, children are laughing and eating candy skulls. All over Mexico, Death is grinning and eating children. Through the village streets the peons carry La Muerte in sugar sculpture, larger than life. Through the land La Muerte strides, the hollow specter of starvation. It pauses at the hut of Macario the woodcutter (Ignacio Lopez Tarso). Six mouths to feed, and only a fistful of frijoles left. Bitterly, Macario cries aloud: "All my life I have been hungry-never once have I had enough to eat! Now I swear I will...