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CABORA BASSA DAWf •■■■I^:;i.IALISM-BUL1HrAf.K
On July 10, 1963, Zambesi Hydro-electric Consortium,
comprising five German concerns, throe French, three South
African and a Swedish Company, with a bid of £86.8 million won
the contract for the first phase of the great Cabora Bassa Bam,
which will be tho biggest hydro-electric project on tho African
Continente
The Consortium, known as ZAMCO, has its headquarters in
Paris.  The dam will be on the Zambezi river, as we announced
earlier, about 200 miles from the Rhodesian border.
Besides its economic value, the dam will also be a
militarily strategic point for International Imperialism against
African Nationalism.  It is also designed to quell the nationalist
forces in their struggle for freedom.  It is a bulwark which would
divide the White racist empire from the African Independent States
North of Zambesi. . .
When  completed this dam will be one of the largest in
the World and an integral part of the proposed SouthQXia i-frica gs?id
network linking Mozambique with South Africa and Rhode bj. a -
Construction work has already started last November.  This involves
the building of a dam wal 984 feet long, 520 high and with a
minimum thickness of 16 feet 5 inches and a maximum thickness of
70 feet 4 inches across the Zambesi river about 80 miles upstream
from Tete.  In addition two underground Power Stations are to be
constructed.  The dam will have five generating units.
' It has been said that the Cabora Bassa Bam will be the
base from which a massive development of the White Empire is
planned, and where a settlement of a million white immifrrants is
expected to be settled in the vast basin created by the Lake.
\Jhen  the dam is completed a lake will be a 160 miles long and
15 miles wide.  An area of 1,100 square miles will be flooded;
It is estimated that these waters will be able to irrigate 3.5
million acres of land, which is equal to 63 per cent of all
land.cultivated in the country at present.
The electrical power to be generated by the dam will
supply an area of the radius of 9^0 miles. The hydro-electric
power expected to be produced by 1974 will be in the region of
17 billion KW/hours.
SOURCE:
The dam will cost £102.8. million.
BOLETIM MENSAL AND NEW YORK TIMES
MOZAMBIQUE ON NUCLEAR PQT/ER
Mozambique has become a cancer of ever growing
imperialism occupation since the colony was sold to the
International monopoly capitalis/n by the former Portuguese
dictator Br. A. 00 Salazar.  Thus the Western Powers have
decided to install a Centre of studies on Nuclear Power which
,was inaugurated early last July in the "Estudos Gerais" in
Lourenço Marques (Mozabique Mock University).
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NEW. FASCIST TAKE OVER OFFICE IN LISBON
The bloodclot that early last September closed temporally
the brain of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has forced the Portuguese
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