GUINEA FREEDOM FIGHTERS FORGE AHEAD AGAINST PORTUGUESE IMPERIALISM
"Napalm and phosphorous bombs marked 'Made in U.S.A.' have been dropped in African villages not far from here, according to numerous eyewitness reports and photographs which appear to be genuine," writes Russell Warren Howe from Conakry, Guinea, in the January 12 issue of The Christian Science Monitor.
The villages are held by nationalist forces that have liberated them from imperialist Portugal.
The arms have been supplied free by the U.S. as "NATO aid." The excuse given by the State Department for keeping dictator Salazar armed to the teeth is to defend the country from any "external aggression."
"The leader of the Portuguese Guinean nationalists, Amilcar Cabral, asserts that obtaining modern arms free in this way enables Portugal to fight the nationalists in Portuguese Guinea, Angola, and Mozambique," continues Howe. "If Portugal had to buy these arms, he affirms,
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it would be forced to negotiate with the
nationalists."
More than half of the colony is
out of control, the Portuguese authori-
ties concede, according to the Monitor's
correspondent.
Against the freedom fighters, the
Portuguese are using Fiat and Sabre jets
and 35,000 troops. Despite this, Portu-
guese communiques “indicate a slow re-
treat from the country, although it is
never described as that."
"Statistics about his forces are
elusive," declares Howe, “but Mr. Cabral
{head of the African Independence Party
for Guinea and Cape Verde] notes that his
troops' gasoline consumption has risen in
three years from 75 gallons monthly to
10,000 gallons. This reflects consider-
able mobility in a country which is hard
on wheeled vehicles. The nationalists'
recently acquired antiaircraft guns shot
down their first Portuguese jet in Noven-
ber."
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