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Marxist President Samora Machel, 43, rejects a peaceful settlement for Rhodesia and says that a long war is needed to "liberate the minds" of blacks. He operates camps for 5,000 to 8,000 Rhodesian guerrillas. His own Chinese-trained 10,000-man army has staged an occasional raid into Rhodesia...
...Peter Walls, Smith's army commander: "We are switching from contain-and-hold to search-and-destroy, and adopting hot pursuit when necessary." It was the Rhodesian bombing of a Mozambique village in February that led to the closing of the Mozambique border with Rhodesia and what President Samora Machel at the time called a "state...
Even as Mozambique steps up its efforts to train Rhodesian guerrillas and help them infiltrate and harass the white-ruled nation, it is itself slipping deeper into an economic and political morass. President Samora Machel's decision last month to close his border with Rhodesia and proclaim a "state of war" deprived landlocked Rhodesia of vital rail links to the sea, and is forcing it into a virtual siege economy. But the move will also cost Mozambique at least $50 million a year in Rhodesian transit and rail revenues and up to $30 million annually brought back by Mozambican...
...flew to London last week for three days of talks with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan. Gromyko helped work out a withdrawal of South Africa's remaining 1,000 troops in southern Angola in time to blunt a U.N. Security Council showdown over the matter. Meanwhile, Mozambique President Samora Machel, whose country would of necessity be the staging ground for any Cuban involvement, assured Britain that he has no intention of inviting them in. African leaders stress that they want Rhodesia liberated by Rhodesians...
...time last week, in fact, some Rhodesians thought that war had actually been declared. Charging Rhodesia with aggression against his country, Mozambique President Samora Machel told his 8.3 million people in a radio broadcast: "Our country has been attacked and our people are being massacred. We are in a state of war." (An erroneous translation at first referred to a declaration...