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...rare episode of diplomacy in the region: State President P.W. Botha's first official visit to neighboring black African states. Even as the Pope was in nearby Zimbabwe, Botha journeyed to Mozambique and Malawi with peace proposals of his own last week. After meeting with Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, Botha gave assurances that Pretoria would no longer aid rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance, also known as Renamo. The right-wing guerrillas have been trying for 13 years to topple the Marxist government, cutting rail lines, sacking villages and driving farmers off their land. The bitter civil war has destroyed...
...equipment are needed to run rebel blockades. So far, however, no Western nation has agreed to provide weapons or materiel. The U.S. position is complicated by a split between the Reagan Administration and staunch conservative allies like Republican Senator Jesse Helms. While the White House views Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano as a pragmatic leftist who wants to improve ties with the West, Helms has called loudly for rebel aid. In a fit of pique, Helms last year blocked the appointment of Wells as Ambassador to Maputo for four months...
...Mozambique President Samora Machel, killed in an October jetliner crash in South Africa, was led by two founders of the ruling Marxist Party, which won independence from Portugal in 1975 after a bloody eleven-year civil war. Last week the younger of the two men, Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano, 47, was selected by the party's 130-member Central Committee to succeed Machel as President. In choosing the urbane, pragmatic Chissano over Vice President Marcelino dos Santos, who is a hard-line Marxist, the party signaled a continuation of Machel's flexible, westward-looking policies...
Both are considered candidates along with Joaquim Chissano, who was prime minister in a transitional government before independence from Portugal in 1975 and has been foreign minister since...
...surprisingly, the thought of the U.S. drawing closer to South Africa troubles Africa's black leaders. Says Joaquim Chissano, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mozambique: "Reagan's policy is extremely dangerous for peace in Africa and peace in the world." Yet the hefty do nation to Zimbabwe during a time of austerity seems to signal a willingness to expand U.S. commitments in black Africa. The Salisbury aid conference was widely seen as a test of Western willingness to support Mugabe's experiment in nonracial democracy. It was also a chance for the U.S. to steal a march...