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A few minutes past midnight on a rainy Wednesday morning in the Mozambican capital of Lourenço Marques, the Portuguese flag was lowered by an unsmiling Portuguese sailor, folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the...
In Lourengo Marques' city hall square, workmen last week began chipping away at the great stone statue of Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a 19th century Portuguese governor who led a bloody campaign against rebellious blacks in 1895. After 300 years under Portuguese rule, Mozambique is finally becoming independent on June...
Fully 80% of Rhodesia's exports pass through the Mozambique ports of Beira and Lourenso Marques. Closure of these vital outlets would mean swift economic strangulation for Rhodesia. A much longer rail route exists through Botswana to South Africa's ports. Last month, however, Botswana's President...
Angry Whites. That could well happen in Mozambique, where Frelimo, the leftist, black-led guerrilla group, will have two-thirds of the government portfolios until next June, when full independence will be granted. Angered at news of the agreement, many Mozambican whites (2.7% of the population) charged that they had...
> When fighting between Portuguese colonial troops and Mozambique liberation guerrillas was at its fiercest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Custodio Alvim Pereira of Lourenço Marques had little patience with some of the Catholic missionaries who denounced Portuguese atrocities. The denunciations were "Marxist propaganda," he thundered, adding that priests who indulged...