Word: machel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London last week for three days of talks with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan. Gromyko helped work out a withdrawal of South Africa's remaining 1,000 troops in southern Angola in time to blunt a U.N. Security Council showdown over the matter. Meanwhile, Mozambique President Samora Machel, whose country would of necessity be the staging ground for any Cuban involvement, assured Britain that he has no intention of inviting them in. African leaders stress that they want Rhodesia liberated by Rhodesians...
...time last week, in fact, some Rhodesians thought that war had actually been declared. Charging Rhodesia with aggression against his country, Mozambique President Samora Machel told his 8.3 million people in a radio broadcast: "Our country has been attacked and our people are being massacred. We are in a state of war." (An erroneous translation at first referred to a declaration...
...Machel ordered his country's porous, 800-mile border with Rhodesia closed and declared that he would begin "fully implementing" the United Nations-imposed international sanctions against Rhodesia. His government detained 18 Rhodesian trainmen caught inside Mozambique's borders and seized a considerable amount of Rhodesian rolling stock as well as tons of tobacco, copper, chrome and asbestos awaiting shipment at Mozambican ports...
...immediate impetus for Machel's action was the growing conflict along the border between Rhodesian government forces and guerrillas of the Zimbabwe Liberation Army, which is dedicated to overthrowing Smith's regime by force. Only days before Machel's tough speech, Rhodesia had boasted of engaging in "hot pursuit" operations against the guerrillas-even though Machel had warned that such incursions into Mozambique's territory would be considered an act of war. According to Machel, Rhodesian jets strafed the border village of Pafuri, killing seven Mozambican civilians and two soldiers. He said that Mozambique had shot...
...Mozambique seemed an almost suicidal provocation, since Smith's government, primarily for economic reasons, cannot afford to alienate Mozambique. Landlocked Rhodesia sends more than half its exports (principally tobacco, asbestos and nickel) through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean ports of Beira and Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques); Machel could cut off those lifelines. Indeed, at week's end Mozambique authorities arrested 16 Rhodesian railwaymen at the border station of Malvernia, forcing Rhodesia to close the line to Maputo in protest (the Beira line was unaffected...