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...solve Mozambique's economic problems. Of its 8 million people, 80% live in rural areas and 90% are illiterate. With only about 1,000 trained administrators, both black and white, Frelimo will have a hard time running a country twice the size of California. Rail and road transport are already breaking down, and internal communications are chaotic. Even some of Machel's "dynamization committees," set up all over the country to sell the people on the new life in Mozambique, have broken up in disagreement. Hundreds of once trusted cadres have been sent out in disgrace to rural...
...Mozambican rail lines and ports to handle 80% of its exports -is another matter. Though he said nothing about a blockade last week, Machel seems certain to shut off Rhodesia's vital transit trade sooner or later. That would cost Mozambique about $50 million a year in transport revenues, but might also topple the hated white regime in Salisbury. "The struggle in Zimbabwe," he said last week, using the African name for Rhodesia, "is our struggle...
...darling of the Labor Party left and the pariah of its right. Business leaders, panicked by Benn's grandiose plans for public control of industries and investment, had been demanding his dismissal from the Cabinet. On the other hand, powerful union leaders including Jack Jones, president of the Transport and General Workers Union, had warned that any demotion of Benn would be taken as "a grave affront." The situation called for the kind of political juggling act at which Wilson excels, and he came through with a dazzling performance...
...gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said, in an emotional speech to Parliament. The post she rejected was left temporarily vacant when Transport Minister Fred Mulley moved over...
...memos about things like that.") Arguing for Dorado's release Gulf contended that he had "no involvement whatsoever" in the payoffs. Last week, however, a Bolivian judge ruled that there were "indications "of guilt" against him. Dorado asserted that he was only a low-level employee responsible for transport, administration and public relations. The government's real target was Dorsey, who said: "They have no power to extradite me and I have no intention of going to Bolivia." The Bolivian press report quoted a judge as saying that the Bolivians would...