The World - News from Nov. 17, 1988

Rebels fighting Mozambique’s Marxist government said they killed 41 soldiers and put a key oil pipeline out of action for up to six months during a series of guerrilla attacks last week. The Mozambican National Resistance, in a statement released in Lisbon, said the pipeline between the Indian Ocean port of Beira and the Zimbabwe border was blown up at three points and that “the damage is such that it could be six months before operations are fully restored.” Nine Zimbabwean soldiers died in that attack, they said. Earlier in the week, 32 Mozambican and Tanzanian troops were killed when rebels overran the towns of Marrupa and Muembe in the province of Niassa, according to the statement.