'Guerrilla murder'
Two Swiss members of the International Red Cross and an accompanying African have been killed by black nationalist guerrillas near the border with Mozambique. military headquarters in Salisbury has said. A spokesman for combined operations headquarters said the men were travelling near Nyamaropa in a Red Cross VAhirlA f'lparlv markpfi vuithi
vehicle, clearly marked with the red insignia of the organisation, when they were stopped by guerrillas. “They were taken out and into a mealie (maize) field where they were made to kneel down and were shot dead,” the spokesman said. A spokesman for the Red Cross in Salisbury said he had had no confirmation of the incident. N.A.T.O. plan Washington is proposing a “revolutionary” plan to pour at least 200,000 troops and 800 aircraft into Europe within a week of the time war with the Soviet bloc appears likely, United States officials have said. The proposal was one of the key' items in the long-term defence programme, which was a year in the making, designed to improve North Atlantic Treaty Organisation defences into the 1990 s against a constantly expanding Soviet military' effort. Officials called the plan, to be discussed by N.A.T.O. Ministers this month, one of the most important developments in N.A.T.O’s 29-year history. — Brussels.
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