Word: louren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President. Salazar himself has never visited Mozambique -a fact that most white Mozambicanos resent. But last week his puppet President, Rear Admiral Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomas, concluded a two-week swing through the country in an effort to prove that Lisbon really cares. From the Indian Ocean port of Lourenço Marques (where he reviewed 5,000 troops and 200 Alsatian, Doberman, boxer and Labrador guard dogs) to the villages of the Limpopo River Valley, the sprightly, 69-year-old President met with rousing receptions and blizzards of confetti. But for all the outward signs of welcome...
What makes the African tumors especially interesting to researchers is their geography. They occur clear across the continent, and down the east coast as far as Lourenço Marques. Since they are found in children of all races, their cause is not likely to lie in ethnic factors. But there are two cutoffs: the tumors do not occur in children living above about 5,000 ft., or in areas with less than 20 in. of annual rainfall. The map of African tumor occurrence, with its highland islands of tumor-free children, almost matches the maps for yellow fever...
...free of the ugly racist rules white men have installed elsewhere. In Luanda, hot, bustling capital of Angola, blacks ride the same elevators as whites in the gleaming modern office buildings, and share the same queues at post offices and bus stops. In Mozambique's busy Lourenço Marques, no one bothers to lock the door of his house or take the keys out of his parked car, and it is safe for whites to walk the darkest alleys at midnight; everywhere, the natives are quiet and polite...