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...Independence Day ceremonies on the fourth anniversary of Zimbabwe's nationhood last week, Mugabe defended his government's policies in Matabeleland. "We have built more roads, schools, clinics and boreholes in that area than we have anywhere else in the country," he said. As for the government campaign against the rebels, he declared that the situation "has been brought under control." The curfew has been cut back to the period from dusk to dawn, and buses and private transportation are once again permitted. President Canaan Banana, who is a member of the Matabele tribe, assured Zimbabweans that...
...tested to deal with the problems of the present and future. A high priority will be to chip away at divisive tribal enmities. Finally, Africans must accept the essential requirement of political stability: the orderly, peaceful transfer of power in the best interest of the governed. Without that resolve, nationhood in Africa will too often be, as it has been in the past, a sad parody of itself. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by John Borrell/ Senegal, Marsh Clark/Kenya and Peter Hawthorne/Mozambique
...have often wondered how Japan rose to world-power status after it was leveled in World War II. Your issue makes it clear: people make a country. Unfortunately, we in the Philippines lack that feeling of nationhood with which the Japanese are blessed...
...reports), it is also true that they did not not endorse them, but merely that in this instance too no opinion whatsoever was advanced. In fact, some of the co-sponsors support precisely that which the Arab Student Society had supported, namely, the right of the Palestinian people to nationhood, and the right to be represented by the PLO, but were simply expressing no position at that time...
...inconsistency between Israel's simultaneous claim to status within the community of democratic nations and the determination of its leaders to crush, with violence if necessary, any institutional expressions of Palestinian nationalism. For invasions of Lebanon, or some equivalent, will probably be necessary as long as Palestinians aspire to nationhood, and as long as Israel refuses to come to grips with the reality and legitimacy of Palestinian national claims...