Word: zambezi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-trained guerrillas (most of them Mozambicans trained in Tanzania and sup ported from that country) are tying down more than 40,000 Portuguese regulars. The major centers of Frelimo activity are in northern Mozambique, where the rebels fully control three districts: the area around Tete, on the Zambezi River in the northwest and on the Mueda plateau in the north...
...African porters, hired by white traders, who first labored their way 300 miles upstream on the Zambezi River called the spot Kebrabasa - "where the work ends." A huge gorge through which the Zambezi flows in the western panhandle of Mozambique, Kebrabasa has always been a dead end. There, according to legend, Dr. Livingstone turned around his wheezing paddle steamer MaRobert in 1858, musing that mastering the forbidding rocks would open wide the gates that have barred for centuries the interior of Portugal's second largest overseas possession...
...West Germany, Compagnie de Constructions Internationales of France, plus Swedish and South African firms.* Financing will be entirely through foreign credits and loans arranged by the consortium. Part of the money will be spent on a new seaport at Cuama, on the Indian Ocean at the mouth of the Zambezi, which will be capable of handling 40,000-ton freighters. More millions will go toward making the river navigable as far as Tete, some 90 miles from the dam. One day the Portuguese hope to see a huge iron and steel works rise on their modest 400-year-old settlement...
...clustered outside Salisbury's Central Prison and uttered the mournful wail of the Shona tribe, "Wayehe, wayehe" ("Please, God"), Milton sprang the traps on the prison's gallows last week and sent three Rhodesian blacks spinning into eternity. Then, returning to the pleased white patrons of his Zambezi Valley café, he sent off a postcard to a friend: "Three in one this time." He signed it "The Dropper...
Last week the consumer nations' fears faded. The delegates of the producing countries listened, argued, split hairs, stood attentively at interminable cocktail parties and even squeezed in a side trip to gape at Victoria Falls and float down the Zambezi River looking for elephants. But the first-of-its-kind conference ended with only an innocuous agreement to coordinate research and information policies. For that, the four countries set up an Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries, to be based in Paris. Its first move will be to open an information bureau. "Consumers must not worry," said mustachioed Chilean...