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II GUARDIAN Wednesday January 25 1984 OVERSEAS NEWS Propaganda barrage increases Council tumbles to Zanu radical Second prisoner fears of 'all-out explosion' in yna joins Venda Druze chief From Andrew Meldrum in Harare The city council, including the mayor, of Zimbabwe's eastern border city of Mutare, resigned yesterday after several days of demonstrations in which it was accused of unfairly raising rents. The majority of the outgoing council members belonged to the ruling Zanu-PF party, including the mayor, Mr Davidson Jahwi. The protests followed, calls for the dissolution of the coun attack of cheering women outside the town hall that although he was dissolving the council, the stoj was highly irregular and could not become a precedent. He said he would sol up "machinery" to run the citj until new elections could bf held. The resignation is seen as victory for Mr Tekere over the more established Zanu-PF organisation in Mutare and Harare, and is his second success as part of his political comeback staged from Mutare.

The outspoken Mr Tekere, widely considered a Zanu-PF radical, was sacked from the Cabinet in 1981 after his highly publicised trial for the murder of a white farm manager. He was acquitted. Last year, he was elected chairman of Zanu-PF's eastern Manicaland province. Although the council's resignation shows Mr Tekerc's popular appeal in Mutare, It is not known how party chiefs in Harare will view it. on Gemayel cil by Mr Edgar Tekere, the maverick, but tocaiiy-powenui member of the Zanu-PF.

The demonstrators, mostly women, took up his criticism of the council, saying that Mr Jahwi had insulted the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Simon Muzenda. The Minister for Local Government, Mr Enos Chikowore. who went to Mutare to end the crisis, said he accepted the council's resignation simply to bow to public pressure. Mr Chikowore told a crowd The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Shamir, closely shadowed by an aide, ushers Chancellor Kohl forward after his arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport Kohl at Holocaust memorial From our Correspondent in Johannesburg A 50-YEAR-OLD farmer, Mr Samuel Tshlkliudo, has died in detention in the' independent black homeland" of Vcnda, a Johannesburg lawyer representing his family, Mr Ismail Mohammed, 'said yesterday. Police had said he had died after a short illness," Mr Mohammed said.

He is the second detainee to die in detention since Vcnda became South Africa's third independent home land in September, 1979, and the fifty-sixth person to die in South Africa and its satellite homelands since detention without trial was introduced in the early 1960s. Mr Tshikhudo was one of seven men detained in Venda under the Terrorism Act, a draconian law inherited from South Africa. A month ago lawyers were refused access to the detainees, but given an assurance by the Vcnda security police chief, Brigadier Raniabulana, that they were in good health. Mr Mohammed yesterday telexed a request to the Vcnda authorities for the remaining detainees to be examined by an independent specialist and psychiatrist. The request was turned down.

The first detainee to die in Venda was Mr Isaac Moufhe. He was found dead in his cell within hours of being interned. In the subsequent inquest, the local magistrate (found that two police officers were responsible for his death. The policemen were, however, later acquitted of murder Dancers killed in rebel bos ambush I'roin David. Hirst in Beirut Amid fears that Lebanon is heading for another round of heavy fighting, the Syrian government has joined the Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, in a virulent propaganda campaign against President Amin Gemayel's regime.

As Mr Jumblatt, who heads the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front, reiterated a call which he first made on Sunday-hut l.hen appeared to retract for the removal of the Gemayel regime the Damascus newspaper Tishreen yesterday, accused Mr Gemayel Leader comment, page 12 or. reneging on promises supposedly made to abrogate the May 17 Israeli-Lebanese troops withdrawal agreement. It is the first such Syrian propaganda barrage since the Lebanese national reconciliation conference" in Geneva in November. Tishreen suggested that the Phalangist authorities "as it again calls the Lebanese regimemay have fallen under the illusion that recent developments in the Middle East, such as Yasser Arafat's meeting with' the President Ilosni Mubarak, favour the retention of the troops' withdrawal agreement. Lebanon would not have dared to show such arrogance, the newspaper said, if they did not enjoy the protection of the multinational fleets.

In his new broadside from Damascus, Mr Jumblatt called on President Gemayel to resign before he destroys Lebanon with his stupid policy." In a statement quoted by the Syrian News Agency, he said that we won't take part in. any government or formula (for governing the country)," with Mr Gemayel at its head. In spite of the relative lull in artillery duels over the past three days, sabre-rattling talk from opposing factions against a background of the failure to implement the security play," and US alarm about possible terrorist attacks on its ships, sharpening regional tensions have revived fears of what Beirut newspapers call an "all-out explosion." Mr Jumblatt has accused the regime of preparing another round of fighting. Meanwhile, Jordan and the PLO are discussing a date for talks between King Hussein and chairman Yasser Arafat on a joint approach to Middle East peace. Asked about a possible visit by President Mubarak, a senior Cabinet minister said "We have no official information but it would not surprise us." From James MacManus in Jerusalem fhanrnllnr ICnhl arrived in Israel yesterday for a six-day 1 visit that began with a tour of the Yad Vashen memorial in Jerusalem to the six million ernment recently decided to award pension rights to veterans of the Waffen SS.

The political content of the discussions between Dr Kohl and Mr Shamir will concentrate on German arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Bonn has committed itself to the sale of anti-aircraft tanks and missiles. The deal is an accomplished fact and Israel will be looking for a reciprocal gesture such as German permission to manufacture, under licence, the smooth-bore 120mm gun with' which the German Leopard II battletank is equipped and which accounts for much of its superiority over other tanks of its class. Israel's sick economy, page 19. caust in the Second World War.

Dr Kohl said later that Nazi Germany had brought disgrace on mankind and his country German nation, most of whom were not alive when the Nazi crimes were committed. Minor demonstrations took place during the visit, and one man was arrested for trying to burn a swastika as the official procession passed. From the German point of view, the aim of the visit is to redeem the Chancellor's election pledge to travel to Israel and to return relations between Bonn and Jerusalem to as near normal as possible after the coolness of the Schmidt-Begin era. But controversy has arisen Press reports here say that the Prime Minister, Mr Shamir, intends to raise the embarrassing issue of why the German Gov Some of the victims were said to have been burned alive inside the bus, and the government news agency, AIM, yesterday described the ambush as a massacre The Machel Government has claimed victories in the past six months over the so-called MNR bandits, who have carried out sabotage and guerrilla raids in nearly all of Mozambique's 10 provinces. The Government and most Western observers here say that South Africa backs the rebels, but Pretoria denies this.

The two countries held talks last week on security issues and ways to develop economic cooperation. From Joseph Hanlon in Maputo At least 27 people were killed and 23 injured when another bus was ambushed in Mozambique by South African-backed rebels. Among the victims were members of one of Mozambique's leading dance groups the Makwaela troupe. Five of the dance group, which was touring Inhambane province, 300 miles north-east of here, died when the bus was attacked. The bus was on a regular run on the coast road between Maputo and the port city of Inhambane when Friday's attack by the Mozambique National Resistance occurred.

accepted full responsibility for the holocaust. "The face of man was disgraced in the name of Germany. It is impossible for us today to imagine what happened then. But it did happen, and Germany bears responsibility for it in history," he said. He represented a new ADVERTISEMENT New Reagan effort to keep marines in 58S South Africa 1 THE FUTURE BETTER PROSPECTS FOR ALL mot same Moroccans tell of brutality From Campbell Page in Melilla One of five Moroccans treated for bullet wounds in the main hospital in this Spanish enclave has described his experience of the harsh reaction of the Moroccan army and police to the recent unrest In his country.

A young man with a stomach wound described an incident last Friday in Beni-Enza near the border to Melilla. I came from the harbour with other youths and a burst of fire halted us abruptly at a corner just before the main street. There were groups of youths coming from all directions and the soldiers and the The facts on the labour South Africa is not as black as it is painted. Or as white. It is a country of many races.

During the last three centuries people from many nations, cultures and religions have made situation present only part btadkor white From Harold Jackson in Washington President Reagan made a rare trip to Capitol Hill yesterday, in yet another effort to shore up congressional support for the marines' presence in Lebanon. Thougn the Republican majority in the Senate seemed prepared to stick by -the 18-month tour agreed by both houses last year, a revolt is brewing in the House of Representatives. Mr Reagan had firmly set out his own position as soon as members reconvened for the jasi session before the November genera! election, and he is likely to reiterate it in 'tonight's State of the Union In a letter to two Democratic congressmen, he said: "We cannot simply withdraw unilaterally without rais-(fig questions about the US commitment to moderation and negotiations in the Middle East." But one of his staunehest erstwhile supporters, the Speaker of the House. Mr Tip O'Neill, said that there was no -sign of a diplomatic settlement, and that he expected legislative action within the next few weeks to demand the recall of the marine? There have been constant reports none of them confirmed that the Administration has been trying to persuade the Gemayel Government to request a reduction, a redeployment, or even the withdrawal of the American forces. Even if such moves are under way, it seems unlikely that the besieged Lebanese President would ever have acceded to them, and even less so now that the reconciliation talks between the warring factions seem to have ground to a standstill.

The alternative plan, now reportedly put forward not only by Washington but by other members of the multinational force, is to persuade Mr Gemayel to settle for something less than a full security agreement with the Druze and Muslim militias. In spite of public statements that American forces will take pre-emptive action against anyone regarded as a threat, President Reagan maintained in his letter, and at yesterday's meeting, that the multinational force does not oppose any Lebanese faction or other country." of the picture. Many aspects of South African life have changed and are changing at an ever-increasing rate. The future is exciting because we have the the MEETINGTHE LABOUR CHALLENGE police with fingers on the trig-I ger moved edgily from one i side to the other. Suddenly they launched themselves at us and quickly dispersed us with rifle butts.

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Recent legislation by the Government represented a complete break with former discriminatory practices. denly felt a terrible pain low down in my stomach and started bleeding." One of the young man's relatives said that the army had behaved brutally. I saw with my own eyes how they kicked someone already wounded until he was left for dead." Another of the wounded said "As we fled from the shooting we reached a street where eight or nine soldiers took aim at us. A bullet went through my thigh and I began to bleed. At my side a friend fell dead and I cannot remember anything- else.

Before they wounded me we had been running through the streets shouting against the prices policy of King Hassan. Peasants joined us in the market: area and the army, seeing the size of the crowd, shot at random." This means more opportunities, better For more working conditions and higher pay for simply complete the Blacks. And the Government is actively coupon below. Baghdad: Iraq has taken delivery of longrange Soviet-made SS12 missiles, adding to its ability to hit Iranian oil installations, diplomatic sources here yesterday. Iraq already has short Soviet Scud-B and French Exocet missiles, and the SSl2s, with a range of up to 500 miles, mark a significant enhancement of its arsenal of rockets, sources said.

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