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Rhodesian Bishop Abel Muzorewa, whose Black United African National Council is expected to win the upcoming elections, defended the raids...
With that grim radio appeal to Rhodesia's 2.8 million black voters, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, one of the three black moderate leaders of the country's interim government, focused on the regime's most immediate problem. That problem is how, in a country torn by guerrilla war, to get a convincing number of blacks to turn out for the April 12 to 24 election period, which is intended to establish Salisbury's version of black majority rule...
Chinamano charged the Salisbury government (the four-man executive council consisting of Smith, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau) with using private armies in addition to the regular army to brutalize the Zimbabwe people...
...Smith's immediate problems is to maintain some kind of unity in his interim government, in which he shares power with three moderate black leaders: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Many black supporters of these leaders have already expressed their displeasure over the amount of power that the whites will retain after a new government takes office following the April elections. The whites will still hold 28 of the 100 seats in Parliament and one-quarter of the Cabinet portfolios, and will retain a strong voice over the judiciary, the civil service...
Prompted by all this unexpected success, Paramount scheduled a low-budget movie several years ago. Then, when Star Wars hit, the studio returned to the project at a speed approaching warp seven. The new movie will have an expensive layering of special effects. Optics Wizard Robert Abel has been hired to give that cloud of electric whipped cream a throbbing, ominous personality. "It's so big you can't make a model of it," he hints vaguely. "It's so awesome, so powerful and has so many unique identities . . ." When the monster first appears, audiences will...