Word: marcelino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independence from Portugal in 1975 after a bloody eleven-year civil war. Last week the younger of the two men, Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano, 47, was selected by the party's 130-member Central Committee to succeed Machel as President. In choosing the urbane, pragmatic Chissano over Vice President Marcelino dos Santos, who is a hard-line Marxist, the party signaled a continuation of Machel's flexible, westward-looking policies...
...Marcelino dos Santos, the number-two man in Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party, said in a nationwide radio address that Machel, 53, and other senior officials died in the crash of the presidential plane Sunday night just across the border in South Africa "in circumstances not yet clarified...