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From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: political elites from the United States and Britain were instrumental in installing dictator Robert Mugabe as the head of Rhodesia's government, resulting in appalling blow back.(AFRICA)

The New American

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At the inaugural ceremony, Prime Minister Mugabe's call for reconciliation between blacks and whites came as a welcome surprise to those who had for years dismissed him as "a Marxist-terrorist trying to gain power through the barrel of a gun." ... The unexpected size of his majority gave Mugabe an unequivocal mandate.... All in all, the election and handover represented a triumph of democracy in the face of considerable external pressure.

--Andrew Young

President Carter's Ambassador

to the United Nations

The excerpted statement above by Andrew Young provides a small sampling of the outrageous commentary on Robert Mugabe's ascension to ...

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