The World - News from Aug. 1, 1985

Willie Musarurwa, editor since 1981 of Zimbabwe’s best-selling newspaper, the Sunday Mail, has been fired. One of the nation’s most respected journalists, Musarurwa was regarded as a rare independent voice in the largely state-controlled media. He had been publicity secretary for 16 years of Joshua Nkomo’s political party, now the major opposition group in Parliament. Musarurwa will be succeeded by Henry Muradzikwa, a worker in the ruling party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.