[Clive]

I am very late in posting this column, for which I apologize. There have been distractions.

I will try to catch up as soon as possible.

Cathy's letter which was due today has not appeared. She has been late before but I still worry every time it happens because, as an anti-Mugabe journalist still living in Zim, she is at risk.

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[U S Army EOD]

The next letters will be coming from South Africa.

[Billthedrill]

BTT. She's done all she can do there and if she stays she's going to get killed.

[Congressman Billybob]

Please give this message to Cathy Buckle. It is from me, but I know I speak for tens of thousands of people who are reading her dispatches here in the States.

She is showing greater courage, filing her dispatches from her home, than I ever have in all my 62 years, except for the one time I was handling information detrimental to certain people who had threatened to attack me or my family.

I have immense respect for her and the vital work she is doing. I hope that she and her family get out to safety, sometime very soon. I know they would be very welcome here in the States, including in my area where the land is good and those who understand farming are most welcome.

Congressman Billybob

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