Western diplomats support the Government's assertion that the right-wing rebels uses child soldiers on a large scale in their campaign to undermine Mozambique's Marxist Government.

In surprisingly blunt language, a high State Department official today excoriated Mozambique's right-wing rebels and their overseas backers, many of whom are Americans.

The Sandinista government was opposed by the right-wing CIA-backed rebels known as the Contras.

But on the other, Mr. Gingrich has acquired a public image, rightly or not, as a right-wing rebel himself.

But in a battle of gear, the right-wing rebels are trouncing the White House.

Wounded survivors of a raid by right-wing rebels on a village near here said Thursday that the rebels attacked pregnant women, children and hospital patients.

The verdict comes at a time of difficulty for Mrs. Aquino, whose Government is threatened by right-wing military rebels and a Communist insurgency.

Under the agreement, right-wing rebels led by Jonas Savimbi pledged to surrender their arms if the leftist Government submitted to free elections.

Mozambique's Marxist Government is locked in a long and ruinous war with right-wing rebels of the Mozambican National Resistance, which has been supported by South Africa.

Hundreds of Angolans are fleeing into neighboring Namibia to escape fighting between right-wing Angolan rebels and Government troops, a Namibian spokesman said today.