Word: mozambican
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...really seemed too much of a coincidence. On Oct. 6, six South African soldiers were injured by a land mine near the spot where the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland converge. General Magnus Malan, South Africa's Defense Minister, quickly issued a stern message to Mozambican President Samora Machel. "Terror feeds on itself," said Malan. "It eventually turns on its hosts." Just ten days after that menacing admonition, a plane carrying Machel, 53, strayed over the South African border near the site of the land-mine explosion and crashed, killing the President and 33 others...
South African officials, however, call claims of sabotage absurd, and permitted Mozambican officials across the border immediately to examine the wreckage and remove Machel's body. Mozambicans, international civil aviation experts and Soviet experts will all take part in an investigation of the crash by the South African Department of Civil Aviation...
...civil war, together with a drought and famine that are among the worst in Africa, has virtually destroyed Mozambique's economy. Despite international food aid that this year will total $200 million, Mozambican officials say thousands who have not made their way to coastal resettlement camps will die of starvation...
...Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa to Mozambique over roads and rail lines that are frequently sabotaged by Mozambican rebels supported from inside South Africa. But for the moment Pretoria's black neighbors are exceedingly vulnerable...
...violated a similar pact with Mozambique by supplying antigovernment guerrillas in that country with radios and weapons. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha admitted to "technical violations" of the accord, but claimed that they had been committed in hopes of promoting peace talks between the rebels and the Mozambican government...