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Released in 1974, Mugabe went into exile in Mozambique. There, harbored by Marxist President Samora Machel and armed largely by Peking, he organized his Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and launched a full-scale guerrilla war against the Smith regime...
...well-washed jeans and carrying sharp, long-bladed pruning knives. Striding in an orderly single file onto the bus that would carry them to lunch at their school, the boys burst spontaneously into well-harmonized songs praising African solidarity and the works of their country's President, Samora Machel. "They are always singing," beamed the Cuban teacher. "It's part of their national tradition...
...ZANU dissidents who have been held in Mozambique prisons for more than two years. Insisting that the prisoners were the responsibility of the Mozambicans, Mugabe angrily threatened to boycott the elections. At week's end, however, he grudgingly agreed to their release under pressure from Mozambique President Samora Machel, and scheduled a triumphant return to Rhodesia on Sunday...
British officials remain confident that the cease-fire will hold, largely because the guerrillas' economically ailing frontline allies are determined to avoid any resumption of civil war. Mozambique's President Samora Machel, for example, supports Mugabe, but he is also committed to peaceful relations with the new Zimbabwe regime regardless of the election's outcome. Machel underscored that commitment last week by reopening his border to Rhodesia for the first time since 1976. Within days, Rhodesians were eating prawns and butterfish in the port of Beira, while Mozambican railway and trade officials were flying to Salisbury...
...Rhodesia; in fact, the embargo has hurt African states more than it has affected the Smith regime. Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda even had to reopen the border with Rhodesia this month to make possible importation of badly-needed fertilizer for his country's planting season; this incensed president Samora Machel of Mozambique, whose relations with the less radical Kaunda have been slipping anyway. And Tanzanian president Julies Nyerere is too busy fighting off Ugandans to mediate such disputes and coordinate front-line activity against Smith...