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...Even the Marxist government in Mozambique, where any protracted guerilla war against the Afrikaaner government would place its base, Pogrund says, will find itself hard pressed to break all links with South Africa, from which 80 per cent of Mozambiquan income derives...
...Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes. In time, Mozambique cut Rhodesia off from its best rail routes to the sea, forcing it to rely exclusively on South Africa for its trade ? and arms. Mozambique also granted sanctuary to more and more...
...Marxist President Samora Machel, 43, rejects a peaceful settlement for Rhodesia and says that a long war is needed to "liberate the minds" of blacks. He operates camps for 5,000 to 8,000 Rhodesian guerrillas. His own Chinese-trained 10,000-man army has staged an occasional raid into Rhodesia...
ANGOLA. Pop. 6,400,000. Independent (from Portugal) since November 1975. One-party Marxist-socialist state. Literacy: 15%. Per capita G.N.P.: $490. Exports: diamonds, coffee, oil. Economy was wrecked by the civil war and the exodus of white technicians...
...rural tribal regions and a tightly organized core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...