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...unfounded -- theory that AIDS "was created by the U.S. military and tested on 'undesirables,' who were later released into the general public." That had the familiar ring of a Soviet disinformation campaign that originated last September in the Soviet weekly New Times and has spread as far afield as Zambia and the Philippines in the past six months. Meanwhile, two years after AIDS first hit Japan, Tokyo talk-show panelists were advising viewers to stay away from U.S. servicemen...
...week in 22 English-language newspapers across South Africa said simply, LET THE A.N.C. SPEAK FOR ITSELF. The ad then urged State President P.W. Botha to legalize the outlawed African National Congress, which that very day was holding a 75th-anniversary celebration at its headquarters-in-exile in Lusaka, Zambia. Prominently featured in the advertisement was a silhouette of Nelson Mandela, the A.N.C.'s symbolic leader, who is serving out a life sentence at Pollsmoor Prison, near Cape Town. The advertisement, placed by 18 antiapartheid and church groups, asserted that "there can be no solution to this country's problems...
...September the Soviet weekly New Times reported that Jacob Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just...
...worked out with the international bankers, it was clear to all in the financial communities that the South African economy was going to be in trouble. Within South Africa itself a group of prominent white (English speaking) business leaders took steps of their own, including visits to Lusaka, Zambia for conferences with the leadership of the banned African National Congress. The government was furious, but realized it could not act against its own business leadership...
...have mistaken the lights of Komatipoort for it. Moments later, about 600 ft. inside South Africa, the plane hit treetops and cartwheeled down a rainswept hillside. Among those killed, in addition to Machel, were Transport Minister Alcantara Santos, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Lobo and the Ambassadors to Mozambique from Zambia and Zaire...