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Mozambique's President Samora Machel has been killed in a plane crash on South Africa's eastern border.
莫桑比克總統薩莫拉·馬謝爾在南非東部邊境的一次飛機失事中死亡。
Machel and twenty-eight others died in the crash during a thunderstorm last night. Ten survived.
昨晚，馬謝爾等29名乘客在一場雷暴中發生的墜機事件中死亡，10人生還。
They were returning home from a weekend summit of African leaders in Zambia.
他們當時是乘機返回祖國，此前剛剛參加完莫桑比克周末舉行的非洲領導人峰會。
Machel was fifty-three. He led Mozambique to independence and had been President since 1975.
馬謝爾今年53歲。他曾領導莫桑比克獨立，自1975年以來就擔任該國總統。
General Motors announced today it is selling its assets in South Africa.
今天，通用汽車宣布其將賣掉自己在南非的資產。
G.M. chairman Roger Smith said the recession in South Africa and a lack of Progress
通用汽車主席羅杰·史密斯表示，南非經濟衰退，
in ending apartheid has created what he called an increasingly difficult business environment.
而且在種族隔離問題上止步不前，這些情況都導致了南非商業環境愈發惡劣。
Smith said GM South African operations had been losing money for several years.
史密斯表示，近年來，通用汽車在南非一直都在虧本運營。
GM's Opel and Isuzu subsidiaries will be sold to a group headed by local South African management.
通用汽車的子公司歐寶和五十鈴將賣給一個由當地南非管理層牽頭的組織。
The Reagan Administration today reacted angrily to the Soviet expulsion of five American diplomats from the Soviet Union yesterday.
今天，里根政府怒不可遏，因為蘇聯政府昨天驅逐了5位美國外交官。
NPR's Jim Angle has details.
下面請聽國家公共電臺記者吉姆·盎格魯發回的報道。
White House spokesman Larry Speakes called it an unjustified action based on unfounded allegations.
白宮發言人拉里·斯皮克斯稱，蘇聯憑著毫無根據的指控就做出了有失公允的行為。
'We are upset, outraged, and chagrined,' he said.
他說，“對此，我們感到怒不可遏，失望至極。”
At the State Department, spokesman Charles Redman said the US has made its views of the expulsions clear to Soviet officials in Moscow.
國務院發言人查爾斯·雷德曼表示，美國已經將自己的觀點清晰無誤地傳達給了蘇聯政府的多位官員。
We did protest that action.
我們對此行為進行了抗議。
In doing so, we made the point that this action is totally without justification
抗議過程中，我們表明了這樣一個觀點，
and cannot help but have a detrimental effect on our relations.'
即蘇聯政府此舉毫無根據，只會損害美蘇兩國關系。
Administration officials said the expulsion was clearly a retaliation
美國政府的多位官員表示，此次驅逐外交官的行為顯然是一場報復。
for the US expulsion of twenty-five diplomats at the Soviet mission to the UN.
報復的是美國驅逐了蘇聯駐聯合國的25名外交官。
That was part of a three-year reduction in the Soviet UN staff demanded by the administration.
每3年就就要縮減一次蘇聯駐聯合國外交官的數量，這是美國政府要求的。
Officials would not comment on whether the five Americans were intelligence officers,
工作人員并未說明這5位美國外交官是否為情報人員，
but insist that they had done nothing improper, meaning they were not caught in any act of espionage.
但堅稱他們并未做不當之事，意思就是說，沒有人抓到他們從事間諜活動的現行。
Some administration officials believe this is a test of wills
一些美國政府官員認為，這是一次測試，
between the US and the Soviet Union over what kind of intelligence presence each side will allow.
檢驗的是美國和蘇聯各自能夠接受的情報活動程度是怎樣的。
In any case, said one official, the Soviet action is illegitimate and shouldn't go without a response.
一位工作人員表示，無論怎么看，蘇聯的舉動都是非法的。蘇聯應該問詢美國過后再行動。
I'm Jim Angle in Washington.
以上是吉姆·盎格魯從華盛頓發回的報道。
