Alberto-Joaquim Chipande leads a 12-man FRELIMO squad in an ambush against the administrative post at Chai, Cabo Delgado. One Portuguese policeman is killed, and two are wounded. This is the official start of the war.
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Regular CMV correspondent James Kinnear earlier this year met
with members of the Union of Veterans of Angola during a trip to Russia to find
out more about the war in Angola from the Soviet perspective