Mozambique: Destabilization and Counter- revolutionary Guerilla Warfare
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, 'N0W' in the early minutes of June 25, the flagraising ceremony proceeds, the vast crowd cheering as Samora Machel, briefly but eloquently, proclaims the country's independence. We're together, representatives of various western support groups, and we embrace one another enthusiastically. Embrace, too, Mozambicans, strangers and old friends. I greet Janet Mondlane, wife of Eduardo, FRELIMO's first president, assassinated by the Portuguese in 1969, greet Felisberto, a FRELlMO comrade
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