Reporters hustled to Portugal's torpid African colony of Angola last month in the belief that it was the destination of the cruise ship Santa Maria, seized by Portuguese Rebel Henrique Galvão and his 28 men. When the captured ship was tamely interned at Recife in Brazil, many reporters went back to their normal posts, but seven stayed on in Angola to see what they could see.
Governor General Alvaro da Silva Tavares was proud of the unruffled calm displayed by his larger-than-Texas colony. In his chandelier-hung office in the capital city of Luanda,...
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