Mozambique Support Network Newsletter

Contents: Missionaries or Mercenaries? • MSN Plans for 1990 by Lisa January • Newsbriefs • Bush Wants Mozambique Off Marxist List • Monumbi Meets Baker • Mozambique Receives More World Bank Loans • Belafonte Rebuilds Schools • Mozambique-Iran Mining Agreement Reached • Bush Administration O.K.'s Locomotives for Mozambique • Renamo Update • Americans Receive High Honors From Mozambique • MSN Members Mobilize Against Misinformation • 1.5 Million Deaths Since 1980: New Studies Document S.A. Destabilization Against Neighbors by Prexy Nesbitt •Trauma: Franisse's Story • New From MSN Massachusetts • MASSACHUESETTS INITIATIVES • ART AND SOLIDARITY • Democratization and Peace in Southern Africa by Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi • New Resources • Mozambique Presidential Elections Set of 1991 • Namibia: Colonialism Ends, New Era Begins by Prexy Nesbitt • ANC Opens Washington D.C. Office • Positive Fire: Malangatana Ngwenya in the United States by Mary Pennington • What is the Mozambique Support Network? • Renamo Watch • Rename: Externally Funded Bandits Terrorize Mozambique • Renamo's U.S. Support • Other U.S. Based Individuals and Organizations that support Renamo • The newsletter says six Americans who spent a week in detention in Mozambique after illegally crossing the border from Malawi have publicly thanked the Mozambican and Malawian authorities for speedily resolving the matter. The newsletter reprints an article from Mozambiquefile. The newsletter reprints an excerpt from MISSIONARIES' 'CAPTURE' An Inaccurate description of the situation In Mozambique by Kathy Hubenet from The Seattle Times. The newsletter includes an excerpt from "Trauma" by Orlanda Mendes, New Internationalist, February, 1989. The newsletter includes extracts from a statement by H.E. Dr. Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, Minister For Foreign Affairs of The People's Republic of Mozambique, before the 16th Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly Devoted To Apartheid And Its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa. The newsletter discusses Frederick and Lucille Leist, Kenneth Daugherty, Carol Roberts, Steven Sherrill, John Cannon, Christian Emergency Relief Team International (CERT), Peter Hammond, David Courson, Dr. Loretta Williams, Mackie McLeod, National Interreligious Commission on Civil Rights, the Washington Times, Secretary of State James Baker, humanitarian and economic aid, private sector agriculture, SADCC, vehicles, passenger transport, the Association of Veterans of the National Liberation Struggle, the Association of Private Transport Owners, Julia Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, Prof. Herbert Shore, Frank Ferrari, George Houser, William Minter, Ruth Minter, Allen Isaacman, Barbara Isaacman, Peter Weiss, Cora Weiss, the Contras, Mozambique Health Committee (MHC), the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO), the Church Council of Greater Seattle, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Institute of Technology and Development (TECNICA), the Fund for a Free South Africa, Africa Exchange, Grassroots International, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Haymarket People's Fund, Anne Evens, AIM (Mozambique's Information Agency), FRELIMO, banks which provide loans to South Africa, the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, the Southern African Research and Documentation Center (SARDC), apartheid, UNICEF, Boston-Beira Sister-City Committee, Dr. Paul Epstein, the Boston City Council, Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, President Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Paul Goodnight, the Fifth Party Congress, "Mural Masters and Monuments", the South African Defense Force (SADF), Southern Rhodesia, Ian Smith, invasion, aggression, the collapse of Portuguese colonial rule, the ANC (African National Congress), the OAU (Organization of African Unity), SWAPO (South-West Africa People's Organization), the democratic movement, Martin Ahtisaari, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), John Evenson, Jeff Mbura, the All Africa Conference of Churches, the South West Africa Police (SWAPOL), Sam Nujoma, Lindiwe Mabuza, Congressman Ronald V. Dellums, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Frontline Fellowship, Desmond Tutu, Allan Boesak, the World Council of Churches, ZANU, the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), the Mozambique Research Centre, Christ for the Nations, Inc., Ian Grey, Shekinah Ministries, Michael Howard, Thomas Schaaf, Jack Wheeler, Robert MacKenzie, Soldier of Fortune magazine, the Freedom Research Foundation, and U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North.