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...luster of a rare episode of diplomacy in the region: State President P.W. Botha's first official visit to neighboring black African states. Even as the Pope was in nearby Zimbabwe, Botha journeyed to Mozambique and Malawi with peace proposals of his own last week. After meeting with Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, Botha gave assurances that Pretoria would no longer aid rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance, also known as Renamo. The right-wing guerrillas have been trying for 13 years to topple the Marxist government, cutting rail lines, sacking villages and driving farmers off their land. The bitter civil...
...ever lower in the polls, the leader of Britain's Labor Party embarked on an eleven-day goodwill tour of southern Africa designed to lift his ratings. En route from Mozambique to Zimbabwe last week, Kinnock and his entourage landed by mistake at a tiny military airstrip near the Mozambican border. Instead of a welcoming party, the plane was met by Zimbabwean soldiers, armed with Soviet-made AK-47 automatic rifles, who herded Kinnock's 15-member group into a whitewashed...
...Africa said it is prepared to train and equip troops in Mozambique to defend a 700-mile regional power grid that will resume service later this year. The move could ease tensions between the two countries over allegations that South Africa backs rebels who are trying to topple the Mozambican government...
Before the lecture, Minter showed a 26-minute video entitled "Killing a Dream." The film focused on the South African government's support of RENAMO, the Mozambican resistance organization which Minter said terrorizes rural Mozambique in order to topple the nation's government. The film included candid footage of Mozambican villagers who had been multilated by RENAMO's armed supporters...
...poor as Ethiopia. Mozambique has been embroiled in civil war from the moment it became independent in 1975. Its economic infrastructure has been destroyed by rebels, and the U.N. estimates that 6 million people face starvation in the west and north, where reliefworkers are afraid to go. Says a Mozambican army officer who recently toured some of the worst-hit areas: "I talked to people who had barely enough flesh to cover their skeletons. Their bones made noises under the skin...