The World - News from Aug. 27, 1989

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano dismissed a peace plan presented by rebels at talks in Kenya. The right-wing Mozambique National Resistance put forward the proposals during talks this month with Mozambican church leaders on ways of ending the country’s 14-year civil war.”The document has no meaning at all,” Chissano was quoted as saying by the official newsagency AIM. The rebels’ 16-point plan, issued in response to a government proposal, demands among other things the withdrawal of the estimated 12,000 Zimbabwean troops helping Chissano’s government.