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TANZANIA. Pop. 15,600,000. Independent (from Britain) since 1961. One-party socialist regime; 25% Christian, 31% Moslem, the rest animist. Literacy: 20%. Per capita G.N.P.: $156. Exports: cotton, coffee, sisal, cloves. A primitive agricultural economy beset by zealous collectivization campaigns...
MOZAMBIQUE. Pop. 9,300,000. Independent (from Portugal) since June 1975. One-party Communist-socialist regime. Literacy: 7%. Per capita G.N.P.: $200. Exports: cashew nuts, sugar, cotton. Economy was hurt by the ten-year preindependence guerrilla war, which was followed by a flight of skilled whites and imposition of doctrinaire socialism. The country is heavily dependent upon transit trade with South Africa and $120 million a year in wage remittances from Mozambicans employed in its mines...
...Hate List. The grisly murder ended the life of a man high on the hate list of Chile's right-wing military government. Letelier had been one of Chile's most prominent citizens-in-exile. An economist, a lawyer and a committed Socialist, he was sent to Washington as Santiago's ambassador by Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1971. Two years later, Letelier returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed...
...final portion of the exhibit was "Socialist New Tibet," where "the emancipated serfs have organized to develop production." It is a hall filled with all kinds of grains, fruits and vegetables, furs and agricultural machinery, along with various exhortations for communal economic development. In a filled-in swamp below the Potala, the Chinese have built an administrative complex and guesthouse...
...past may imbue them with distorted meanings. The most curious response to Mao's death may come from China's younger generation, which has never known another leader or system or experienced the turmoil and deprivation endured by Chinese in the era of imperialism and during the socialist revolutions--the same generation that, in other nations, has often stood in awe of Mao Tse-tung...