Word: chissano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...granted abrupt and unprepared independence from Portuguese rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week...
...massacre civilians, even their parents. Idi Amin's army of thugs, murderous preteens in wraparound sunglasses. Iranian ten-year-olds sent unarmed into battle as human minesweepers, with pictures of Khomeini pinned to their shirts. Now Mozambique is at the vanguard of the unconscionable. The Renamo rebels fighting the Chissano regime have become infamous for their instrumentalizados, children kidnaped by Renamo troops and not just trained to fight but also forced to slaughter and maim civilians...
Mozambique. President Joaquim Chissano is showing much more pragmatism than Mengistu. Last summer Chissano's government abandoned the Marxist-Leninist credo that his Frelimo Party has embraced since it came to power in 1975. Transformed from "a vanguard of the worker and peasant alliance" to "a party of all the Mozambican people," the ruling group has stepped up market reforms that it initiated in the mid-1980s. Last January Chissano introduced a draft constitution that embraces universal suffrage, a secret ballot, direct election of both the President and the parliament and the reintroduction of private ownership of land...
...Chissano's change of heart is timely, given a Soviet announcement that it will remove all military advisers from Mozambique by the end of 1990. Bulgarian, Czechoslovak and other East European advisers and technicians are also said to be returning home. With some 3 million people facing possible famine conditions, Mozambique is hustling to find a new source of help -- and apparently has fixed its sights on Pretoria. In a recent letter to South African State President F.W. de Klerk, a group of Mozambican intellectuals that included several hard-line Communists wrote: "We view as positive the changes happening...