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In 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini took over rule in Iran; Margaret Thatcher becomes U.K. Prime

Minister; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

At the RPSL: Harry and Doris Green present combined display, Harry presented Belgian

postal history and Doris showed Saar.

RPSL Presidents were George South MBE and A. Ronald But ler.

Patron H.M. Queen Elizabeth II. Membership 1446 - 1503.

CUBAN TRAINING BRIGADE

IN MOZAMBIQUE

From the collection of Alistair Kennedy FRPSL.

Member since 2002. Lives in England.

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During the 1960s and 1970s there was a war against the Portuguese authorities in Mozambique by

the Marxist organisation Frelimo, seeking independence, which was achieved in 1975. Cuban forces

went to Mozambique to train the Frelimo fighters and were still there for many years after 1975,

involved in fighting between different factions, and then incursions into neighbouring countries. This

cover, a Cuban Sc envelope, is from a soldier in the Ensenanza Superior Brigade showing the sender's

address as PO Box 4027 in Havana. It has a Havana backstamp of Sth September 1979.