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Friday, September 7, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Rhodesia on Bloody Path
By DAVID MARTIN The London Observer
(After marching with Frelimo guerrillas through Tete province, Mozambique, Martine飞 into London with this exclusive troop of missions of Rhodian troops in Mozambique.
LONDON--Rhodesian troops operating in Portuguese Mozambique have been carrying out a systematic campaign of killing men, women and children for the past month in an attempt to block support for the Mozambique guerrilla movement.
They have burned huts and food stores in the Zambezi valley in Tete province. Villagers are said to have been decapitated, Rhodesian bombers, jet fighters and helicopter gunships have attacked villages, scattering survivors into the bush.
The Portuguese deny that the Rhodesians are fighting inside Mozambique. However, last week I obtained irrefutable evidence from witnesses—all refugees from Rhodesian atrocities—of Rhodesia's mounting involvement.
THE RHODESIANS have moved in because they, like the Fremio guerrillas and the South Africans, realize that the war is not over, actual, or overthrone of the white-ruded south.
If Frelimon won and took over Mozambique, Rhodesia would be almost completely surrounded by hostile black African states. For the first time, there would be an independent border for guerrillas to operate across into South Africa.
for the Rhodesians, Tete is crucial. If Fremlo gained total control, the province would become the springboard for operations against the Rhodesians by guerrillas. They believe Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) guerrillas already held liberated areas of Tete into Rhodesia to spearhead fighting against them.
DISPARAGINGLY, RHOESIANIS say the Portuguese have lost the stomach to hunt out the Prefiro guerrilla themselves, and this now appears now at stake. Rhodesia is taking over.
I saw 1,000 refugees who have fled to the northeast part of Tétsa province in the past year.
Simon Chaola, chairman of the Likela area on the northern bank of the Zambize River, is a tall, brooding man wracked with hatred. He lost all his 14 children a month ago. He has hunted for them ever since and is now seeking bodies that bodies probably thrown into the Zambize.
THE PEOPLE scattered into the bush, but next morning many of them moved back to the river to fetch water. There, says Chaola, more than 100 were killed.
PEOPLE WHO HAD FIRED from as far south as Mucumbaura, only two miles from the Rhodesian frontier, said they saw the helicopters and helicopters flying across the border.
The Rhodesian and Portuguese planes were completely different colors, they said. There were differences in the style of their uniforms and hats worn by the two armies, they said.
Villagers hunted for the missing people and say they found six bodies in the bush. All had been decapitated, but they could not find the heads.
He said black and white Rhodesian troops, who have been just over the border inside Mozambique since last year, crossed into Tanzania on July 21. Then on July 26, after a small band of Frelimo guerrillas clashed with rhodesian troops, villages in his area were attacked by rhodesian bombers and jet fighters, and troops were landed by them.
The final difference the villagers noted is that the Rhodesian troops showed less interest in Frelimo than in Zanu guerrillas, and that the Zanu guerrillas in the Zambezi valley area last December.
Chaola, like many other people in the area, worked in Rhodesia to avoid forced labor by the Portuguese. And like nearly every country in Africa, Famagaloa or Famagaloa a Bantu punit language the white Rhodesians refer to in d derogatory terms and use to communicate with Africans.
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He is quite certain that the troops who attacked his village were Rhodesians, because they spoke Farnagalo to the Portuguese do not use the language.
PERISHING RIFLES will have a picnic for all ROOTC services at noon tomorrow in Broken Arrow Park. Food will be provided by Pershing Rifles.
Jim Arnold of Boeing Aircraft will speak on controls vehicles.
CAMPUS CHRISTIANS will sponsor a concert from noon to midnight tomorrow at Potter Lake. The Hallelujah Joy Band will be featured.
THE DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING will sponsor the first of a series of aerospace colloquiums at 3:30 p.m. today in 200 Learned Hall.
THE M.T. MEET BICYCLE CLUB will have a bike tour Sunday to Lone Star Lake. The tour will leave at 11 a.m. from South Point, where approximately 70 members and 60 cents for nonmembers.
THE KU OBSERVATORY will have an open house today. Programs will begin at 8 and 9 p.m. in 426 Lindley Hall and will include observation of the moon and the film,
KANU WILL broadcast the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, live this weekend from Ann Arbor, Mich. Broadcast times are 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. today, 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 p.m. tomorrow and 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
LOUIS FRYDMAN, associate professor of social welfare, will appear at noon Sunday on the Perspective television program on channel 4. He will discuss the rights of mental patients and proposed legislation in the area.
Steven E. Sommars, Chanute senior, has been named recipient of the J.D. Stranathan Award at KU provided by Professor Emeritus J. D. Stranathan, former chairman of the physics department.
Sommars, will receive the $300 prize for being the senior physics major with the highest grade point average during his first three years at KU.
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The race will begin tomorrow on Manhattan after registration at 8 a.m. All teams will spend Saturday night at St. Lawrence and walk from Lawrence on the Kansas River
The race's finish is at the end of Indiana Street in Lawrence.
turns manning the canoes during the race
HILLEL WILL sponsor a welcome dinner at 5 p.m. Sunday in the Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive. The dinner is free and public. For rides call Don Miller, 842-7821.
ALPHA CHI SIGMA, professional chemistry fraternity, will have a rush meeting at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
THE KU COLLEGATE 4-H CLUB will have an organizational meeting 2 p.m. Sunday in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Museum of Natural History Dyche Hall
A PEACE CORPS AND VISTA recruiter,
Fred Norling, will be on campus Monday
and Tuesday. He will be in the north lobby of
the building and in front of
Strong Hall Tuesday.
Johnson Chingola is a rough, good-humored elder with white hair and grey stubble beard. His shoulders still show the years of enforced labor from the army to carry the chair of the Portuguese administrator as he toured the district.
KU to Lay Canoe Title On the Line
Dozens of other refugees told me similar stories. Nobody knows how many villagers have been killed by the Rhodesians, but the most conservative figure of killings by the Portuguese and Rhodesians in the past month would seem to be 300.
HE SAID the Rhodesians began an attempt to depopulate the area south of the Zambene last year when defoliants were sprayed on their crops—an attempt to destroy Frelimo by removing people they depend on for support.
The fourth annual Kansas River canoe race from Manhattan to Lawrence tomorrow and Sunday is one of the first events sponsored this fall by the Association for Housing Residence Halls (AURH), according to AURH's president of AURH and a participant for KU1.
About 150 University of Kansas students and 110 Kansas State University students are expected to compete for a traveling speaker at the winning school, Stokes said yesterday.
The race has been run in the spring every year except this year. Last spring the river was dangerous at the scheduled time of sunrise, and spring floods, so the race was postponed.
AURH is a student organization which exists for the benefit of the students in the KU residence halls, according to its pamphlet. AURH's purposes are to provide services to add to the convenience and atmosphere of a residence hall and to be a residence hall administrator. Students and residence hall administrators. Student groups and judicial committees are now being formed.
KU won the race for the first time in 1972. Each of the approximately 35 canoes will have three participants at a time. The rules are the same as those for bobsleds, the participants of both sexes. Team members take
"Look at it this way." Matt Hamilton, chairman of AURU's student employment committee, wrote in Interchange, the magazine, "Your hall is your home."
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