|
|
Article: WIDE AWAKE IN ZIMBABWE.(Editorial)(Column)
- Article from:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: CLARENCE PAGE Syndicated columnist
WASHINGTON -- Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, means "place where one does not sleep."
That's what a black Harare journalist told me last summer as he drove me around his town. When Shona tribesmen first settled the area, he said, the lions in the nearby forest interrupted the night so forcefully with their roars that settlers had a hard time getting much shut-eye.
More recently, as I watched from afar while President Robert Mugabe appears to have stolen his re-election fair and square, the entire country of Zimbabwe has become a tough place to sleep.
Terry Ford, for example, is sleeping ...