Word: mozambican
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...shouted a Cuban teacher standing beside a battered Soviet bus. "iVenga, venga, venga [Hurry up]!" Emerging silently like guerrillas from behind endless rows of grapefruit trees were 25 Mozambican boys, dressed in well-washed jeans and carrying sharp, long-bladed pruning knives. Striding in an orderly single file onto the bus that would carry them to lunch at their school, the boys burst spontaneously into well-harmonized songs praising African solidarity and the works of their country's President, Samora Machel. "They are always singing," beamed the Cuban teacher. "It's part of their national tradition...
...whom are coiffed with intricate "corn-row" braids. On Sundays there are bus trips to nearby beaches or sightseeing tours of the island. Sex is not a problem, the teachers insist. "They are told the facts of life, but there is no formal sex education as such," said a Mozambican instructor. Girls are free to talk with women teachers about the problems of puberty. "They have biology classes," said a Namibian ideologue, "but as elsewhere in the world, the kids do not apply biology to themselves." He may be right. Since the program is so full and disciplined, there would...
...Mozambican capital of Maputo, Mugabe bitterly accused Soames of trying to sabotage his election chances. Said he: "I never knew they [the British] were capable of this dishonesty. It's really shocking...
...also committed to peaceful relations with the new Zimbabwe regime regardless of the election's outcome. Machel underscored that commitment last week by reopening his border to Rhodesia for the first time since 1976. Within days, Rhodesians were eating prawns and butterfish in the port of Beira, while Mozambican railway and trade officials were flying to Salisbury to begin re-establishing commercial ties...
...raids, which at week's end were still going on, Zimbabwe Rhodesian commandos for the first time seriously battled Mozambique's supporting army. A communiqué issued in Salisbury boasted that the strike forces had suffered only 13 fatalities while killing 300 ZANU fighters and Mozambican troops. The Salisbury forces also claimed to have destroyed an armory, radar stations, fuel dumps and other installations in lightning helicopter operations that penetrated as far as 200 miles into Mozambique. The incursion, which Muzorewa said gave "a great start to the day," was launched after Zimbabwe Rhodesian intelligence reported that...