Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Potentially the worst blow to the tenuous cease-fire was the sudden death of General Josiah Tongogara, military commander of Mugabe's ZANLA forces, who was killed when his car crashed head-on into a truck while he was driving to his base camp in Mozambique. Officials there, as well as diplomats, judged the death accidental, but among some of his followers there was speculation that he might have run afoul of rivalries inside the guerrilla movement. A magnetic, ruthless soldier, Tongogara, 41, had played a key role in favor of a settlement, and British officials fear it might...