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What intrigued Western observers last week was signs of tension between the two men. When Mugabe began to rave about how there could be no amnesty for war criminals and traitors after the liberation of Zimbabwe, Nkomo unceremoniously cut him off. When Mugabe told reporters he was a Marxist and would do his best to turn Zimbabwe into a one-party Marxist state, his more moderate colleagues appeared to be both embarrassed and annoyed. "Where is Robert?" demanded Nkomo irritably when Mugabe failed to show up at a press conference the two were supposed to give jointly. As it happened...
...their government, should push for world-wide human rights because a government "must compromise its values in a world of power politics," Stone said, adding he fears Carter's human rights campaign may lead the U.S. into another Vietnam or into a "dispute between 57 different varieties of Marxist-Leninists...
Letelier had been a trusted Cabinet member under Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. After Allende was overthrown by a right-wing military coup in 1973, Letelier was jailed for 14 months, then allowed to go into exile in Washington. His fellow exiles immediately blamed his murder on the Chilean secret police, but for nearly two years federal investigations were able to produce neither suspects nor direct links to Chile...
...former schoolteacher, Kapuuo was shot to death in Windhoek late last month by two men who vanished without a trace. The Hereros believe that he was murdered by SWAPO (South West African People's Organization), the Marxist-oriented guerrilla movement whose political base is the 430,000-member Ovambo tribe, Namibia's largest ethnic group. (Second largest are the whites, with 100,000, followed by the Hereros with about 60,000.) Headed by bearded Militant Sam Nujoma, SWAPO has an estimated 4,000 guerrillas, most of them based in southern Angola, who have been carrying out an intermittent...
...United Nations has the right to ask for foreign military assistance, which the U.S. has often provided to clients of its own choosing-notably Kenya, Sudan and Zaire. Many black Africans fear that the U.S. is unable to distinguish between Communist-backed but legitimate liberation groups and committed Marxist revolutionary movements. Asks one Mozambican leader: "What are you Americans fighting here anyway-Cubans or white supremacists? We ask you for arms because we are fighting for majority rule, and you turn us down. Now we are fighting for majority rule with Communist guns, and you are still turning us down...