CFM News and Notes

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Edition

No. 11

Creator

Committee for a Free Mozambique

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

January 1972

Type of Item

Newsletter

Length/duration

4 pages

Description

Contents: An Analysis of the Recent Azores Agreement • The focus of this issue is the December 10, 1971 executive agreement between the Nixon Administration and Portugal granting the U.S. certain rights to military bases in the Portuguese Azores in return for a $436 million U.S. aid package to Portugal. In his letter to CFM, President Samora Machel states: "Certainly they will tell us that the American economic aid has no bearing on the war, even though the colonialist, who spend more than 1.5 millions a day on the war, are the first to confirm that their economy is in a critical state." The newsletter reports on opposition to the agreement from Congressman Charles Diggs, Chairman of the...

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Organization

Committee for a Free Mozambique

Coverage Africa

Angola
Mozambique
Southern Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of former members of the Committee for a Free Mozambique.

Collection

Robert E. Maurer Papers, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections