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I look to the participants.
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I think the people who saw off the kamikaze pilots
had the same look on their faces.

:30:20
He wrote me that the pictures of Guinea-Bissau
ought to be accompanied by music from the Cape Verde islands.

:30:25
That would be our contribution to the unity
dreamed of by Amilcar Cabral.

:30:33
Why should so small a country—and one so poor—
interest the world?

:30:36
They did what they could, they freed themselves,
they chased out the Portuguese.

:30:41
They traumatized the Portuguese army to such an extent
that it gave rise to a movement that overthrew the dictatorship,

:30:45
and led one for a moment to believe in a new revolution in Europe.
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Who remembers all that?
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History throws its empty bottles out the window.
:30:56
This morning I was on the dock at Pidjiguity,
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where everything began in 1959,
when the first victims of the struggle were killed.


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