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...MANUELA by Demetrio Aguilera Malta. 304 pages Southern Illinois University...
...husband had just come home from the seas. He looked in the closet. "What are those military uniforms doing there?" he asked. "They're mine," said Manuela Sáenz de Thorne. "I'm a colonel in the Liberation Army...
...Manuela was more than a colonel in the army of Simón Bolívar, who liberated the west coast of South America from the Spaniards early in the last century. She was also 'Bolívar's political fixer and counselor and, for eight years, his mistress (her husband finally divorced her). As this book makes clear, "La Sáenz," the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state...
...their oil embargo of Rhodesia (TIME, April 15), the Ioanna V finally docked in the Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the south its sister ship Manuela set a course out of the South African port of Durban-destination unknown...
Slowly, the British were making their point that shipping oil to Rhodesia is a risky operation. Serving notice that Britain meant to use its U.N.-granted powers, the British frigate Berwick had intercepted the Manuela 150 miles from Beira and diverted it to Durban. Though Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has repeatedly vowed that he would not honor the British embargo, he had some second thoughts about permitting the Manuela to unload its oil for transshipment overland to Rhodesia-a highly expensive method for the Rhodesians but better than nothing. South Africa finally promised Britain that it would ban the Manuela...