Word: machel
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KOMATIPOORT, South Africa--President Samora Machel of Mozambique, who led his Marxist nation through 11 crisis-ridden years of independence, was killed when his plane crashed into a rain-swept South African hillside...
Marcelino dos Santos, the number-two man in Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party, said in a nationwide radio address that Machel, 53, and other senior officials died in the crash of the presidential plane Sunday night just across the border in South Africa "in circumstances not yet clarified...
...first official confirmation by Machel's government came more than 12 hours after dos Santos said in his first announcement on the radio that the president's jet had not returned on schedule from Zambia. The radio played solemn music throughout...
...Machel's body was brought to Komatipoort by truck and flown to Maputo, the bureau said at a temporary office it established here...
...into Angola, General Constand Viljoen, commander of the South African defense forces, insisted that it had been mounted in response to increased "abductions, intimidation and sabotage" by SWAPO. That explanation failed to satisfy Washington, which called for an immediate pullback. After meeting in the White House with Samora M. Machel, the visiting leader of Mozambique, President Reagan also denounced South Africa's actions in that country. Viljoen eventually announced that his troops had disrupted SWAPO supply lines and would pull out of Angola over the weekend...