Word: machell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...