POP/ROCK - Aug. 1, 1989
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More than 50,000 rock fans celebrated the final day of a congress of Mozambique’s ruling party Sunday in Maputo’s National Stadium with British rocker Eric Clapton. Clapton, heading a bill that included artists from Zaire and South Africa, kept the crowd on its feet while police and soldiers in fatigues patrolled the perimeter of the stadium. Scores of white South Africans, international aid workers and foreign embassy officials also attended the concert, which was a stop on the final leg of Clapton’s Southern Africa tour. Observers said the crowd surpassed the turnout in September for Pope John Paul II.
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