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...while, there was plenty of oil in Rhodesia. The refinery at Umtali, supplied by pipeline direct from the port of Beira in Portuguese Mozambique, had enough oil to supply the nation for ten weeks even if the pipeline was cut, and Smith last week airily advised Rhodesians that there was no need to cancel their holiday trips to save fuel. As New Year's Eve approached, in fact, the only thing rationed in Rhodesia was Scotch whisky...
...question was what effect the embargo would have on Rhodesia. Rhodesia uses only 280,000 tons a year, virtually all of it piped in from the port of Beira in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to a new refinery at Umtali on the Rhodesian border. Normally, the nation has only a six-week reserve, but there are signs that Ian Smith has been quietly stockpiling a six-month supply. This would not be too hard, for oil supplies only 27% of Rhodesia's energy, primarily for autos and airplanes, with the bulk of its factories, utilities and its trains...
...borders (equal to more than a third of the total population), the country's roads and communications are not good enough to prevent rebel forces from traveling relatively freely from one end to the other. Since 60 percent of the Europeans live in the two costal cities of Beira and Lourenco Marques, the capital, the backcountry outposts and plantations have taken on the air of armed camps...
Jaime Siguake is 33 years old. His face looks much older at the rare moments when it is not covered with a friendly smile. Born near Beira in central Mozambique, he, like most Africans, had to leave school after his primary education. Determined to finish, he left Mozambique and went to South Africa's Transkei, where he entered a secondary school. But he soon had to go to work in order to support himself...
...been gobbling up enterprises and creating new ones in seven south-central African nations, and it is hungrily casting about for more. Last week Lonrho began operating a 187-mile, $11.2 million pipeline that it built through the jungle to funnel crude oil from the Mozambique port of Beira to a new Rhodesian refinery that will supply the growing markets in Rhodesia and Zambia...