Zimbabwe Military Eyed In Death Plot

NAIROBI, Kenya - Zimbabwe's opposition party yesterday accused the country's military of plotting to assassinate presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai using snipers. The Movement for Democratic Change said Mr. Tsvangirai planned to return to Zimbabwe to contest the June 27 runoff election once security measures are in place to protect him. On Saturday, the opposition said it had received details of the alleged assassination plot as Mr. Tsvangirai was on his way to the airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, to return home.

"The assassination plot involves snipers," the party's secretary-general, Tendai Biti, told the Associated Press after a news conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi yesterday. He said 18 snipers were involved in the alleged plot.