Word: frelimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zvobgo offered the success of Frelimo, a Mozambique revolutionary organization, as an example of the gains to be had in the struggle against colonialism...
...weeks ago a Frelimo administration was installed, and next July, when the Portugese troops withdraw, there will be total independence for Mozambique and the Frelimo Party," he told the group after viewing a 30-minute film on the struggle and organization of Frelimo, entitled "The Struggle Continues...
Angry Whites. That could well happen in Mozambique, where Frelimo, the leftist, black-led guerrilla group, will have two-thirds of the government portfolios until next June, when full independence will be granted. Angered at news of the agreement, many Mozambican whites (2.7% of the population) charged that they had been sold out by Lisbon. They want to set up an independent, white-dominated government along the lines of regimes in neighboring Rhodesia and South Africa. Last week white settlers belonging to militant organizations-one ominously named the Dragons of Death-seized the radio station in Lourenço Marques...
...Asians, 8 million blacks) could have trouble. It has close economic links with South Africa, where apartheid supporters might try to foment a separatist movement among Mozambique's whites. Still, the transition will be greatly eased by the fact that there is only one liberation group, Frelimo, which enjoys recognition in Lisbon as the voice of most Mozambicans...
...were also hopeful signs last week. Angolan whites began working to bring about a multiracial government, the territory's hard-core white taxi drivers' union advertised for black drivers for the first time. Meanwhile, Laurengo Marques' liberal white Democratic Union came out in support of a Frelimo government. That organization mapped plans to stem the exodus of skilled whites. As Mozambican Samuel Ihanga put it: "At last Africans can run their own country. But we don't want the whites to go. We need everybody...