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From the balmy streets of the Mozambique capital of Lourenço Marques on the Indian Ocean to the jungles of Guinea-Bissau on the Atlantic to the porticoed halls of Lisbon's presidential palace, the news announced last week by Portuguese President Antonio de Spinola was for the...
Not everyone was cheering. Even as Spinola was announcing Lisbon's new policy, the liner Infante Dom Henrique pulled out of Lourengo Marques with 1,100 tearful whites and their personal possessions. Airlines flying from Mozambique to Portugal were reported booked up until October. Those who have fled, either...
But there were also hopeful signs last week. Angolan whites began working to bring about a multiracial government, the territory's hard-core white taxi drivers' union advertised for black drivers for the first time. Meanwhile, Laurengo Marques' liberal white Democratic Union came out in support of...
...The desertion is the culmination of rumblings of discontent which have been going through the armed forces in Mozambique for some time. Last week more than 2000 newly trained troops at Boane Barracks, outside Lourenco Marques, refused to move to the northern war zone.
Marques, a no-nonsense administrator whose older brother is a member of the junta back in Lisbon, has made the guerrillas a remarkable offer: complete amnesty and an immediate place in his government at high level if they will lay down their arms. "I would welcome the assistance of the...