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The World - News from July 16, 1985

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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s prime minister, dismissed the most prominent white member of his Cabinet, Agriculture Minister Denis Norman, but retained all his other ministers. Mugabe, whose ruling party won a landslide victory two weeks ago, said he decided not to reappoint Norman because the country’s 100,000 whites backed the party of former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith in a separate poll for 20 seats reserved for them in Parliament.

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