Word: komatipoort
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...made Tupolev 134-B, took off with 44 people aboard, including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport in sight and descended. The Maputo airport was actually 45 miles away; the pilot may 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...
...KOMATIPOORT, South Africa--President Samora Machel of Mozambique, who led his Marxist nation through 11 crisis-ridden years of independence, was killed when his plane crashed into a rain-swept South African hillside...
Machel's body was brought to Komatipoort by truck and flown to Maputo, the bureau said at a temporary office it established here...
...Komatipoort that Machel and South African President P.W. Botha signed the 1984 Treaty of Nkomati, which was hailed as the start of an era of friendly relations. After signing it, Machel also made overtures to the West for investment and met with President Reagan in Washington...
...black-ruled, Marxist Mozambique last week sat down together for the first time and faced something other than the prospect of killing. As a crowd of 1,000, including representatives of black African states, watched from the tiers of a hastily constructed grandstand near the border town of Komatipoort, Botha and Machel bent over a tamboutiwood table to sign a nonaggression and good-neighborliness treaty, then smilingly exchanged their gold Parker pens. Declared Botha: "In signing this agreement today, we have opted for the road of peace." He added, "Our task now is to return to work...
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