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Soames' historic arrival was actually a bold gamble. It had been hoped that it would crown 14 weeks of painstaking negotiations among representatives of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's biracial Salisbury regime, the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance and the British government. Meeting at London's Lancaster House under the skillful chairmanship of British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the negotiators had hammered out important agreements on a new majority-rule constitution and a transitional plan leading to legal independence. A full cease-fire agreement, however, continued to elude the negotiators. The gamble was to send Soames into Salisbury...
...There have been indications that South Africa might intervene militarily to support the government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa...
...Lancaster House, Mugabe and his fellow guerrilla leader, Joshua Nkomo, had finally accepted a British-drafted plan for a transitional period leading to new elections and legal independence for the breakaway British colony. Endorsed two weeks ago by the biracial delegation of Salisbury's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, the plan will go into effect as soon as final agreement is reached on a cease-fire between the warring factions. At long last, an end to the seven-year-old civil war was definitely in sight. Said one senior British diplomat: "To those of us who have been trying...
That agreement ended a deadlock that had developed when Carrington, as chairman of the conference, two weeks earlier put forth a constitutional plan requiring compensation for all dispossessed landholders. Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Salisbury's biracial government, immediately accepted it, but Mugabe and Nkomo raised a number of objections. The guerrilla leaders were particularly incensed at the idea of asking Zimbabwe's blacks to buy back lands that they believe were stolen by white pioneers in the 1890s...
Before that deadline was up, Zimbabwe Rhodesia's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa accepted the British draft unequivocally. He then repeated his demand that the British meet their "legal and moral obligation to immediately lift [economic] sanctions and lead us to international recognition." The only dissenter in Muzorewa's twelve-man party was former Prime Minister Ian Smith. He denounced the British pact as "madness" and flew back to Salisbury to rally white support against...