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...government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared that the two countries were bound "in a friendship of steel." Upon returning home, he gave his blessing to the accreditation of an American ambassador less than three years after expelling four U.S. diplomats on charges of spying. And last week in their capital city of Maputo, which has been blasted three times by South African raids, Mozambique officials began formal...
...pressing problems facing the international economy. Tumlir pointed out that 48% of world trade is now hindered in some form or other and said that freer world commerce was the foundation for sustained growth. In recent weeks, however, trade frictions have been increasing. Angered by U.S. restrictions on specialty-steel imports, the European Community retaliated two weeks ago by slapping curbs on a variety of American-made products, including chemicals and sporting goods. The Common Market action, to take effect March 1, is scheduled to last four years...
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...with House Republican leaders to try to quell their misgivings. He argued that the Marines were now adequately protected from attack. Not only are some 500 to 600 ferried from the airport to the ships every night, but those on shore now live in underground bunkers built of steel ship cargo containers...
...scores of countries where small, labor-intensive projects are needed, technological white elephants have proliferated. In Tanzania, Zaïre and Somalia, glass-and-steel airport facilities, built in anticipation of air traffic that has not materialized, have been allowed to fall apart. Escalators do not work; electronic flight-schedule boards have been replaced by blackboards; automatic sliding glass doors have to be operated manually. In Uganda and Angola, some high-rises lack glass panes and running water. In 1975 Canada built a $2.5 million semi-automated bakery in Dar es Salaam, but often there is no flour to make...