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Socialist Challenge No. 56, 3 August 1978 · p. 11 of the scan · 469 words

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page 11 of the scan

horrific pictures.

What's this? The Express doesn't seem to have dioned it. Nor has the Mirror.

The Sun mercifully isn't with us this morning and the Mail has tucked it away on an inside pige Mozambique raid').

BLOODBATH Some papers give it more prominence: Telegraph even leads on it. "Britain told of But don't get your hopes up.

had nothing to do with the Bunarcos of Knocest troops and fighter planes.

The danger was that 'Daily Express" on Monday, anxious to read news of the latest massacre in Mozambique: the eyewitness accounts by journalists flown out to the scene by lan Smith's army; the interviews with the survivors; the 'Gucrillas were said to have killed nine black civilians and to have raped two black women at gunpoint"

Said by whom? Why, by the BoreanCHE the raid on Mozambique, of which 6944595Since this time we don't have the benefit of the hacks filing their reports from over the Mozambique border, we can only guess what has happened.

When Rhodesian attacked civilians at Chimoio, Mozambique, last November, they led 0U Just as important is what this raid tells as about the state of Smith regime TELETH A MONTH ago Freitas do Amaral, the President of Unusually the regise has Unusually the regime relessed mocraton or the invasion before its completion to ger the maximum publicity over unarmed civilians.

For that is about the only sort of victory Smith's forces are winning at the moment.

On one side Smith is losing: launched white support.

Salisbury: government candidate's poll dropped from 70to 49 per cent.

ILLUSION Even moreto the point, there Dave been repors of maning troops between guerillas and govern ment troops in Salisbury itself Not so long ago Smith was trying to tell us the guerillas. commanded no support what SOeVer -and still being faithfully fostered by This Fleet Street fan club.

Bul Britain, extent control over the country.

all CHOT OVING BUCTIES In a recent by-election The toe are longes Lowe ailegiance to a are booked This is 'marxist terrorists"

violence and an illusion which is be still more cruelty one honorable exception, the Times recently printed an eyewitness account from Zimbabwe (written so it avoids the cerent of black sationalist black nationalist In large areas of the country there is a dual administration, movements being More than half the whites in CATC nOW mercenaries who would not future peppet black government and DEBE SENSO UTE CH up right until indetendence un December.

Tar tron the conventional belure of these plucky English types, stoically Rhodesia is a regime built on terror. Small wonder that its last response In the face of final defeat should mention. the normal political practice of SCENE of the Kassinga massacre when South African troops invaded Namibia. Another event the British press forgot to

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