Amilcar Cabral, 48, was something of a rarity among revolutionariessoft-spoken, moderate and a reluctant convert to violence. He claimed to be a friend of the Portuguese, whom he was successfully driving out of Guinea-Bissau, a Switzerland-size chunk of West African swamp and jungle. There was nothing moderate, though, in the manner of his death. Two weeks ago he was gunned down as he walked with his wife and a bodyguard outside a borrowed villa in Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea. The bodyguard was also killed; Mrs. Cabral survived.
Who was responsible for the murder? Guinean President Sékou Touré,...
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