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Virtual Satellites. Throughout the 1970s, Black Africa's most serious political problem, apart from internal instability, will be its relationship with the white-ruled countries south of the Zambezi River (South Africa and Rhodesia) and with the Portuguese territories. At the time of independence, many Black African leaders predicted that the white regimes would be toppled within five or ten years. Now they know better. Guerrillas have harassed Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique and Angola, but there is no indication that Lisbon is ready to withdraw...
...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...