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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population) charged that they had been sold out by Lisbon. They want to set up an independent, white-dominated government along the lines of regimes in neighboring Rhodesia and South Africa. Last week white settlers belonging to militant organizations-one ominously named the Dragons of Death-seized the radio station in Lourenço Marques, the territory's capital. For three days they broadcast appeals for support to other frightened whites and to blacks belonging to tribes not represented in Frelimo. "We are not protesting about the principle of independence, but about the instruments by which this independence...
Hundreds of hysterical whites crowded the street in front of the radio station. Fearing a racial pogrom, others packed their belongings into cars or trucks and headed toward the South African border. Furious at the possibility that their independence might be denied them, blacks meanwhile went on a rampage, looting stores and beating many whites...
...find work. In the fall of 1969, according to the National Education Association, 1,600 beginning teachers could not get jobs. Last year the surplus of beginning elementary-school teachers was 56,900, and many young people with teaching certificates now find themselves working as bank tellers or filling-station attendants...
...each team's work station, for example, a computer-connected television screen projects figures comparing the team's production goal with the number of assemblies it has actually completed. On top of the screen a yellow light flashes if the team is behind schedule; a green light comes on when it is ahead. So far, the plant is only turning out 56 cars a day, but by 1975 the company hopes to achieve annual production of 30,000 cars...
...CFIA and the DAS are still with us, but in the years since they were a regular way station for demonstrations and the target of a bombing campaign, things have changed a good...