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...close down these markets, Zimbabwe has been working with the World Wildlife Fund and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species to pressure countries to ban trade in rhino horn or to enforce existing laws. Experts say that most Zimbabwean horn is smuggled through Zambia and on to distributors in Burundi and the United Arab Emirates. These countries have become targets for conservationists. "We need to expose and destroy the Zambian syndicate that deals in rhino horn," says Glenn Tatham, Zimbabwe's chief warden. "We need to hit the whole trade with an H-bomb, so to speak...
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean rangers have been capturing Zambezi Valley rhinos and moving them away from the war zone. Since 1984 the teams have relocated nearly 240 animals to safer game reserves and fenced-in ranches. On one recent morning, Warden Clem Coetsee, head of the capture unit, set out with his men to bag their 75th rhino of the three-month dry-weather capturing season. Armed with a heavy darting rifle loaded with nerve-blocking tranquilizer, he spotted a rhino cow, moved into range and took careful aim. The dart hit the beast's shoulder with a thwack. She snorted...
...Africa, they will have to bail out the black nations struck by South African reprisals. The U.S. has already made it clear to the frontline states that it cannot compensate them for their possible losses. Britain, whose ties with southern Africa are even closer, has been still firmer. When Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe called for South African sanctions at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last October, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a stern and stinging warning. "If you want to cut your own throat," she said, "don't come to me for a bandage...
...turned out to greet him. The Foreign Affairs Minister later said that women had played a major role in Zimbabwe's emergence from colonialism and would not be denied equal status. Spokesmen for both countries declared publicly that the incident would have no effect on their relations. But Zimbabwean officials were privately betting that it might be a while before Khamene'i visits again...
...country will soon have a one-party rule. In running the economy, this party, just like the Russian Communist Party, will have to operate within the framework of international capitalism. Zimbabwe's national independence in 1980 did not coincide with its economic independence from the rest of the world. Zimbabwean capitalists, foreign and native, must trade with other countries. In so doing, they must abide by the same rules of the world market as other capitalists. Many times this means low wages for the working class in order to maximize profits for the corporation's owners. The losers in such...