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...mineral resources, and Portugal never invested as much capital there as did in its other Southern African colonies. Mozambique's industrial sector is restricted to the coastal area--thus most of the country geographically was not penetrated by Portuguese economic interests, and continued to be based on traditional peasant agriculture. During its ten years of fighting the colonial administration, Frelimo was able to organize the inland population, and the Portuguese could not undermine the party's strength despite its systematic bombing of liberated areas...
...Frelimo before Portugal's decision to renounce its African colonies were indeed organized on a collective basis, and the villagers were involved in the development of those areas. Frelimo ran schools and hospitals in the liberated provinces even while it was mobilizing to fight the Portuguese armies, and the peasant loyalty it won then seems not to have been eroded...
None for the Taking. Ernesto Bellochio's early neo-realist phase--the story of a peasant village and its refusal to pay scutage...
...role of Vishkover, a modest sewing machine salesman who courts the unprepossessing Channah Basha. As the miserably married Palka, Sam owns the very building in which Channah lives; as the bachelor Vishkover, he is incapable of force or originality. But it is here that his best self survives, a peasant from the other side, unsophisticated and uncorrupted by ambition or guile. Decades later, when Palka's wife dies, he still cannot bring himself to reveal his true identity. "Who is Sam Palka?" he asks himself. "An old lecher who has made a fortune and doesn't know what...
Shortly after Premier José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo took office last month, Portuguese Socialists dubbed him "the admiral without fear. "A warm, outgoing man with ruddy skin, thick hands and peasant features, Pinheiro de Azevedo, 58, does not much like the nickname but concedes: "In some ways it is correct because when I have a decision in my head, I put it into action immediately. " Last week, at his office in Lisbon 's São Bento palace, Pinheiro de Azevedo talked candidly about some of the decisions he faces with TIME Correspondent George Taber...