US admits plan to bring down Mugabe   As scores of white farmers
went into hiding to escape a round-up by Zimbabwean police, a
senior Bush administration official called Mr Mugabe's rule
"illegitimate and irrational" and said that his re-election as
president in March was won through fraud.  Walter Kansteiner,
the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, went on to
blame Mr Mugabe's policies for contributing to the threat of
famine in Zimbabwe.  "We do not see President Mugabe as the
democratically legitimate leader of the country," he said. "The
political status quo is unacceptable because the elections were
fraudulent. So we're working with others, other countries in the
region as well as throughout the world, on how we can in fact,
together, encourage the body politic of Zimbabwe to in fact go
forward and correct that situation."  Mr Kansteiner said the US
was working with trade unions, pro-democracy groups and human
rights organisations to bring about change. He did not say how
he believed Mr Mug