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...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...
...hard-pressed troops, Walls asked Smith for permission to make a punitive raid on Mozambique's Gaza province, a key infiltration and supply route. Smith readily gave him the go-ahead. Last week the first columns of Rhodesian army trucks, carrying some 500 troops, rolled across the Mozambican border shortly after daybreak and headed toward the village of Mapai, 60 miles away. Overhead, Rhodesian air force planes provided cover, while low-flying C-47 Dakotas disgorged teams of paratroopers...
...from our inherent right of self-defense." But did Smith have political motives in authorizing the mission? Western diplomats noted that the raid began the same morning an Anglo-American negotiating team, headed by British Diplomat John Graham and U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Stephen Low, left Salisbury for the Mozambican capital of Maputo. Their mission: to discuss a possible settlement with Black Nationalist Leader Robert Mugabe, head of the Zimbabwe African National Union and co-chairman with Joshua Nkomo of the Patriotic Front, the joint guerrilla force that is recognized by the frontline states as the sole legitimate liberation movement...
...claimed to have killed 320 guerrillas). "We fear this place could become like Angola," said a black insurance salesman in Salisbury. "Why can't they all talk? We're frightened of what might happen next." Added a leading black lawyer: "It's an open invitation to [Mozambican President Samora] Machel to get someone to help him. The danger is getting the Russians and the Cubans in. I don't believe the Africans really want them. But Smith has exacerbated the problem, and every minute lost arriving at a settlement is a minute gained for Communism...
...Mondale flew on to Belgrade to pay a call on Yugoslav Communist Leader Josip Broz Tito, Washington's U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young was preparing to go from the Mozambican capital of Maputo to South Africa. In Mozambique, where he attended a 92-nation U.N. conference on Rhodesia and Namibia, Young had held private talks with Mozambican President Samora Machel and other African leaders. He irritated some delegates by comparing southern Africa to the American South and by advocating peaceful transition to African majority rule. Robert Mugabe, a leader of Rhodesia's militant Patriotic Front, found the speech "hollow...