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...mood was set by a shockingly savage act committed in the Rhodesian village of Musami, some 40 miles northeast of Salisbury. On Sunday evening, a dozen black guerrillas in battle dress descended on St. Paul's Mission School, hastily rounded up eight white priests and nuns and murdered seven of them in a nearby ditch with two automatic rifles and a light machine gun. The eighth missionary survived by allowing his body to fall alongside those of his dead and dying friends. "It was." said soft-spoken Father Dunstan Myerscough, 65. "a senseless, insane, brutal killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Anxious for A New Start | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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