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Mugabe scoffs at Bush visit

HARARE JULY 4. The Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, scoffed at the U.S. President, George W. Bush's upcoming Africa trip and urged his ruling party not to be intimidated, the state Herald newspaper reported on Friday.

U.S. officials have been increasingly critical of Mr. Mugabe's authoritarian rule and have urged him to work with the Opposition to pull Zimbabwe out of its economic and political crisis.

``When Bush visits here, it should not send tremors to your nerves ... he would not dare to try what he did to Iraq. He knows the situation is different. After all, we do not have oil here,'' Mr. Mugabe told the ruling Zanu-PF party's 125-member central committee, according to the newspaper.

Mr. Mugabe said the United States and Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler, Britain, opposed his Government and backed his opponents.

— AP

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