Word: machell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crocker was snubbed at the outset by Mozambique's President Samora Machel who simply refused to meet with him. He spent several days trying to assure black African leaders that there would be no "tilt or endorsement of apartheid," his pains, he then received a less than enthusiastic welcome from the South Africans. An expected meeting with Prime Minister P.W. Botha, for instance, conspicuously failed to materialize. "It doesn't suit us," Botha was quoted as saying about Crocker's solicitous meetings with black African leaders. Thus, on both counts, it seemed to be an inauspicious start...
...case was a major blow for Mugabe, who was playing host last week to visiting Mozambican President Samora Machel. Described by aides as "embarrassed and enraged" at the alleged conduct of a longtime friend and comrade, Mugabe promptly sent word to Parliament that full justice would be done. Whatever the outcome of the judicial pro cess, the case would be sure to confront Mugabe's own leadership with a series of crucial tests and uncertainties...
...principal political speech, delivered before Nairobi's diplomatic corps, John Paul attacked "atheistic ideology." Under Mozambique's socialist regime, Catholics are in detention, and many people are denied their right of worship. Catholicism is naturally associated with the colonial Portuguese, but the government of President Samora Machel propagandizes against all religions. Many services have been banned, mission activities restricted, and churches and mosques have been padlocked...
...Soviets helped arm and finance Machel's guerrilla army. After independence, an estimated 1,600 Soviet, Cuban and East German technicians and advisers arrived to take up residence. But Mozambican officials insist that their country is not a Soviet satellite. Asked what Moscow would think of Machel's overtures to the West, a young government aide exploded: "What the hell does it matter what Moscow thinks? This is our business, not Moscow's." In fact, Mozambique's largest single source of economic aid ($33 million this year) is Sweden...
...South African inland cities to the Indian Ocean port facilities at Maputo. It also buys most of the hydroelectric power produced by Mozambique's Cabora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River. About 35,000 Mozambican workers are employed in South Africa's gold and coal mines. Although Machel opposes South Africa's apartheid policies, he also recognizes that the two countries share a long common border. "This is a reality that can be neither ignored nor altered," he says. "Peaceful co-existence between neighboring states does not hamper the cause of peoples' liberation...