American secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice says that presidential elections in Zimbabwe cannot be free and fair.
Our own political leader describes the Mugabe regime as a criminal cabal, exercising brazen and obscene abuse of power.
These must be some of the most astute foreign policy observations since Chamberlain pointed out that "Mr" Hitler was not a gentleman.
David Diment, Riverside Court, Oxford
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