Word: mozambican
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...revolution in Northern Mozambique is not a full-scale war. The Mozambican libration forces do not control large areas of the countryside as the Angolan rebels did when revolution broke out in that Portuguese colony in 1961. But from bases across the Ruvuma River in Tanzania, Mozambique's northern neighbor, African "freedom fighters" have spread across the country, attacking isolated tea and sisal plantations, ambushing search parties sent into the tropical bush country to surprise them, and always slipping away under the cover of darkness to reappear as peasant farmers in some remote village...
...delay is necessary, which some of the students do not, the refugee feels that once again he has been placed in a position of insecurity and doubt. One Southern Rhodesian wrote several times that he was "just about to enter regular classes" but has not yet done so. A Mozambican said he felt those students who were sent directly to high school for a definite period of time were "better off," even though they faced the problem of being considerably older than their classmates...
...issues around which all black Africans can rally. Dar es Salaam (Arabic for "Haven of Peace") further belies its name by serving as the home base for at least seven African insurgent parties dedicated to eradicating colonialism and apartheid from the south. Largest is the Mozambican Liberation Front-Frelimo-which maintains a military training camp 40 miles northwest of Dar, where some 500 young Mozambican refugees receive weapons training with rifles supplied by Algeria...