Word: abel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost completely out of keeping with the conciliatory public mood was the bitter reaction of Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, who won only three seats despite an active and well-financed campaign. (Candidates of the other six black parties were shut out completely.) Favored by the whites because of his moderate politics, the Methodist prelate had become Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister last June after he won 51 of the 72 black seats in "internal" elections boycotted by the guerrillas. Last week's vote, he declared in an emotional press conference, had been "absolutely unfree and unfair" because...
...last January to oversee the country's recent elections and its transfer of political power, skeptics said he would leave hastily in a helicopter, tossing out the name of the next prime minister on a slip of paper. The tension between blacks and whites, between the acting Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and the two leaders of the Patriotic Front, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, seemed too intense for anyone to prevent it from flaring into renewed civil war. Moreover, the logistical problems seemed insurmountable--cajoling more than 70,000 former black guerrillas of the Patriotic Front to 14 assembly points...
Former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the leading black moderate, was still gamely electioneering around the country in a red-and-white-striped helicopter, accompanied by a dozen armed bodyguards. Generously financed by South African and Rhodesian corporations, Muzorewa runs by far the richest and best organized of all the major parties. Despite offers of free drinks and gifts, however, his crowds remained small and glumly suspicious of the proceedings. Muzorewa charged last week that he had attended "only one meeting where there was no evidence of intimidation...
Opponents of Salisbury's former Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa are equally distressed by the activities of his heavily armed "auxiliaries," numbering between 16,000 and 20,000 according to various estimates. Known as Pfumo Re-vanhu (spear of the people), this force was recruited some 18 months ago from among "reformed" guerrillas. In their o ten ruthless efforts to regain rural areas from Patriotic Front control, the auxiliaries have won a reputation as bullies dedicated to furthering Muzorewa's political fortunes by violence and intimidation...
...outcome of the elections. Voting separately, whites will fill 20 seats and blacks 80 seats in the new 100-member House of Assembly. Though no fewer than ten black parties are in the running, the real contest boils down to three men: Nkomo, Mugabe and former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa...