Word: louren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mozambicans-black, white and brown-are still somewhat stunned by what happened in Lisbon. The great majority seem pleased at the pronouncements from Portugal; yet there is little open ebullience. The most emotional scene was at the grim Machava prison on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques. The first 554 of an estimated 12,000 prisoners locked up by the secret police for helping FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) were set free in a moving ceremony on May Day. A large crowd, including many whites, gathered to embrace the released prisoners, most of whom admitted to reporters that they...
...population of 220,000 out of a total of 8 million is concentrated. Guerrillas attacked the railway to Rhodesia for the first time this year. Only two weeks ago, they ambushed traffic on the main road linking the second city of Beira (pop. 400,000) with the capital of Lourenço Marques (pop. 700,000), killing three truck drivers. Such events temper optimism with apprehension...
Though censorship was lifted, newspaper editors continued for several days to submit all copy to the censor's office, where a skeleton staff bemusedly stamped Autorizado on everything. Fernando Carvalho, news g editor of the Lourenço Marques daily Noticias said that his paper "is still climbing down from its enforced pro-Caetano posture, trying to explain to the readers why we supported fascists for so long...
...Africa, where Portugal has an army of 160,000 men stationed in its major three colonies, the course of the coup was followed as eagerly as it was in Lisbon. In Lourenço Marques, capital of Mozambique, crowds gathered outside newspaper offices to buy up papers as they came off the presses. There was some concern in Lisbon that the hawkish commanders of either Angola or Mozambique might join with white settlers in defiance of the new dovish regime. But when they were fired, both men submitted quietly...
...American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...