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After a year of fear and turmoil in Lourenço Marques — Maputo’s name at the time — Mozambique became independent in 1975.

Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho was born Aug. 31, 1936, in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of the African state of Mozambique.

He attended state schools in Lourenço Marques at a time when Portugal was engaged in several wars against independence groups in its African colonies, and he enrolled in the Military Academy in Lisbon in 1955, at the age of 19, assigned to Angola as an artillery captain in 1961.

Salvation, or rather its promise, arrives in the form of de Melo, who has traveled hundreds of miles across “the vast hinterland” from the poorly fortified capital of Lourenço Marques.

For several days, Howard hid Churchill in his mine, then, with the help of several friends, smuggled him onto a freight train to Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portuguese East Africa.