Word: maputo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will probably have little trouble containing the guerrilla insurgency. But Rhodesia's diplomatic and economic isolation as a result of the Mozambique action will be keenly-and immediately-felt. The loss of an outlet to the Indian Ocean via railway links to the Mozambique ports of Beira and Maputo immensely complicates Salisbury's trade with the outside world. Nearly 40% of Rhodesia's exports and imports moved along those rail lines. Alternate routes through South Africa are already congested...
...pursuit of guerrillas into Mozambique seemed an almost suicidal provocation, since Smith's government, primarily for economic reasons, cannot afford to alienate Mozambique. Landlocked Rhodesia sends more than half its exports (principally tobacco, asbestos and nickel) through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean ports of Beira and Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques); Machel could cut off those lifelines. Indeed, at week's end Mozambique authorities arrested 16 Rhodesian railwaymen at the border station of Malvernia, forcing Rhodesia to close the line to Maputo in protest (the Beira line was unaffected...