Milestones, Sep. 22, 1975

Married. Samora Moises Machel, 41, bearded Maoist guerrilla fighter who became President of Mozambique when the East African nation gained its independence from Portugal last June; and Graca Simbine, thirtyish, Mozambique Minister for Education and Culture; he for the second time, she for the first; in Lourenço Marques, the country's capital. As head of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Machel, a onetime hospital orderly, helped lead the bloody ten-year struggle that brought over 400 years of Portuguese domination to an end. Simbine formerly worked as an underground Frelimo agent, spying on Portuguese troop movements and...

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