Word: mozambican
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...Leader Robert Mugabe, meanwhile, spent most of the week with his soldiers in the Mozambican bush. Mugabe's colleagues in the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) have nothing but contempt for Muzorewa, whom they regard as inept, indecisive and thin-skinned. Scorning him as "Queen Abel," a mere figurehead, they believe he will be unable either to end the war or gain real power from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says...
With a flamboyant wave of the Union Jack, the Royal Navy was ordered to blockade the Portuguese Mozambican port of Beira, where a new oil pipeline led into Rhodesia. The blockade lasted ten years, but was only window dressing. Shipments to Rhodesia continued to arrive at the old petroleum port of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), several hundred miles to the south. From there the oil was shepherded by Shell Mozambique, a U.K.-incorporated firm, into the hands of South African brokers, who sent it north by rail through Mozambique to Rhodesia...
...under Heath, explains a bit lamely that the oil sanction issue "was never discussed." The Tories' see-no-evil, hear-no-evil policy apparently helped prompt the oil companies to drop the oil-swapping sham and return to direct shipments through Lourenço Marques. Not until a newly independent Mozambican government closed that door in 1976 did the trade stop. Today Rhodesia gets its oil directly from South Africa's supplies...
...government built four boarding schools for Angolan and Mozambican teen-agers on the Isle of Pines off the south coast of Cuba. At one of the schools, named after Angolan President Agostinho Neto, a class of uniformed children, many of them war orphans, greet "comrade visitors" by snapping to attention, giving a clenched-fist salute, and chanting: "Long live the Angolan Revolution...
...works there in his father-in-law's radio-manufacturing business. In late April, Marcus was allowed to walk to freedom into Swaziland from Mozambique, where he had been held since September 1976, when bad weather forced his private plane to land during a flight to South Africa. Mozambican troops surrounded the craft and opened fire, wounding Marcus and killing his brother-in-law. Although he has insisted that his flight was strictly for business purposes, diplomats in West Germany have speculated that Marcus might have been surveying Cuban and Soviet activity in Mozambique for the CIA and Israeli...