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...officials have worked well with Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), the black liberation movement that led the ten-year fight against colonial rule, in the transition government. Explains Rear Admiral Vitor Crespo, the Portuguese High Commissioner: "We are both-Frelimo and Portugal -victims of the colonial and capitalist systems. We are now on the same side of the barricades...
...Angola (F.N.L.A.), headed by the mercurial, missionary-educated Holden Roberto. It has its headquarters in Kinshasa and is backed by Roberto's brother-in-law, Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. With numerous foreign mercenaries in its employ, the F.N.L.A. is said by its rivals to be supported by capitalist business interests. Its chief rival is the Moscow-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), backed principally by students and intellectuals in Luanda and strongly supported by the Portuguese Communist Party. The third group is the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (U.N.I.T.A.), headed by Jonas...
...have always longed for a unified Vietnam. It was always a dream. But I don't know about communist life. As long as I can remember, I haven't trusted the communists. We always see Images of North Vietnam attacking South Vietnam. I'm a capitalist sort. I want freedom...
...clear when reunification will take place. The swiftness of the Communists' victory left Hanoi without enough cadres to administer towns and villages in the South; many more loyal bureaucrats need to be trained before the country can be governed from a single capital. The capitalist economy of the South, moreover, will have to undergo time-consuming changes before it can be successfully meshed with the centrally planned economy of the North...
...multinational corporations has hit it hard in these days of stagflation. The consumer price index rose 40 per cent in 1973. Tens of thousands have been laid off, while many more have had to accept shortened work weeks and other wage cuts. The state of the world capitalist economy has also provided the multinational corporations with an excuse to reduce operations in Singapore and move to greener pastures in other countries offering even lower wage rates and other investment incentives...