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British officials remain confident that the cease-fire will hold, largely because the guerrillas' economically ailing frontline allies are determined to avoid any resumption of civil war. Mozambique's President Samora Machel, for example, supports Mugabe, but he is also committed to peaceful relations with the new Zimbabwe regime regardless of the election's outcome. Machel underscored that commitment last week by reopening his border to Rhodesia for the first time since 1976. Within days, Rhodesians were eating prawns and butterfish in the port of Beira, while Mozambican railway and trade officials were flying to Salisbury...
...with Rhodesia; in fact, the embargo has hurt African states more than it has affected the Smith regime. Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda even had to reopen the border with Rhodesia this month to make possible importation of badly-needed fertilizer for his country's planting season; this incensed president Samora Machel of Mozambique, whose relations with the less radical Kaunda have been slipping anyway. And Tanzanian president Julies Nyerere is too busy fighting off Ugandans to mediate such disputes and coordinate front-line activity against Smith...
...Front-Line States. [Samora] Machel [of Mozambique] and [Kenneth] Kaunda [of Zambia] want to end the Rhodesian problem even more than I do. U.S. and British recognition of the internal settlement would give them the out they are looking for. Kaunda said to me once, "If only the British government would have the guts to face up to its responsibility in settling the issue, while I would make a few unpleasant noises in public for a few days, that evening I would fall down on my knees and thank the good Lord." He wants it resolved desperately, as does Machel...
Meanwhile, at week's end the presidents of three of the front-line states -Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Angola's Agostinho Neto and Mozambique's Samora Machel-convened a meeting in Zambia to talk Kaunda into changing his mind. One of the problems both Zambia and Tanzania will face as a result of Kaunda's decision is that the Tazara railroad will be plunged into financial straits, making it difficult for the two governments to pay back a $450 million Chinese loan used to build the railroad...
...notably Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who had joined the interim government last March. Nkomo was acting without the support of his colleague, Mugabe. And Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda was hosting the meeting without the express approval of his fellow "frontline" Presidents (Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana), with whom he has been jointly seeking a Rhodesian settlement...