From AIM/IPS, Maputo MILITARY attacks on zambique from Rhodesia have intensified in recent weeks.
According to the Standing Political Committee of Frelimo, the country's ruling party, 'the massive employment of jet planes napalm and powerful DomOs reveal programmed escalation in the aggression against our people, an escalation planned to lead to Moatize, total war.' The attacks of the Rhodesian racists members alone. Mirage planes appearing in attacks against us. American helicopters of recent manufacture have just been delivered to Rhodesia.
The attacks have taken place in four of the country's ten DLOVILICCS anO have reached the areas around the provincial capitals.
A Defence Ministry munique documents 18 differSocialist Challenge 18 January 1979 page 12 Cent cases of foreign incursions into Mozambique in the last Mo- couple of months.
The most costly came on 28 December when 14 people were killed in an attack on a civilian bus at Inchope Ten days earlier four people • had died WICH and exploded in the helicopters, the systematic use restaurant in Beira. extremely On 17 December a group of La eight English-speaking wrecked the railway bridge between Mutarara and near the border. The locomotive and continues: four wagons plunged into the 'We cannot say that these are river M'Combezi, killing three are injuring two.
If these outrages occurred almost anywhere else and if those responsible had not been white Rhodesians, would have been news in Britain. Yet not one even national newspaper has mentioned them, even though the Mozambican CON- thinks that the attacks could signal the beginning