Word: frelimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic vitality. My own assessment of the military situation in Mozambique, based on interviews I conducted there this summer as well as on eyewitness accounts and newspaper stories that abound in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), persuades me to believe that nationalist forces of The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) have an upper hand in the armed conflict with the Portuguese. This is an aspect of the Portuguese-African relations Lisbon tried to conceal during the first few days following the April 25th coup d'etat. Yet hardly a month after the overthrow of the Caetano regime Antonio de Almeida Santos...
...asserting his determination not to see white settler interests sold down the river in the territories. However it was meant, liberation-movement leaders at the annual meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia, of the Organization of African Unity-composed of 42 African states-read neocolonialism into every word. Declared Frelimo Vice President Marcelino dos Santos: "Our attacks will be maintained and even increased until independence is conceded under the sole leadership of Frelimo." At week's end, talks with Guinean liberation leaders, which had been transferred from London to Algiers, were broken off as the two sides were "about to sign...
Nevertheless, the momentum toward a peaceful fim à guerra colonial (end to the colonial war) has not been altogether lost. A de facto cease-fire still holds in Guinea, and neither side would rule out a resumption of the talks in the near future. Talks between Frelimo and the Portuguese are still scheduled to resume July 15 in Lusaka, although chances of a cease-fire in Mozambique are slight. As the OAU gathered in Mogadishu last week, Scares appealed to the organization to help settle differences that will arise in Lusaka and Algiers. Its ability to aid is doubtful, however...
...that we should be negotiating in the atmosphere of cordiality and frankness that has characterized our meetings while there are Africans and Portuguese dying in the continuing warfare. This is something we have achieved up to now in Guinea but not, unfortunately, in Mozambique. Both PAIGC and Frelimo [the Guinean and Mozambican liberation movements] have made certain conditions of a political nature. They consider a cease-fire a political step, and therefore they want us first to come to an agreement...
...FUTURE OF WHITES IN THE TERRITORIES. "I see no reason for alarm on the part of the [white] population of Mozambique about the possibility of a massive return to Europe in a moment of panic. I know that the Frelimo people, who are responsible men fully aware of the part they are playing, have undertaken to safeguard the legitimate rights of the white population. They think that in the future they will need the technical and economic cooperation of this population...