The World - News from Feb. 22, 1987
Right-wing rebels, claiming successes against Mozambique’s Marxist government, said they cut the railway and oil pipeline in the corridor linking the Mozambican port of Beira with landlocked Zimbabwe. A statement by the Mozambique National Resistance said its forces blew up the pipeline and railway in the 190-mile corridor, cut water and power supplies to Beira and inflicted losses on Mozambican and Zimbabwean troops.
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