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...plain fact is that the internal settlement, which was ratified three months ago by former Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is not working, and for the reason widely forecast: it left the Patriotic Front guerrillas on the outside looking in. Says an adviser to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the most popular of the black politicians in the interim government: "The root cause of the problem today is that the country has no leader. For 13 years the whites had Smith, and before that there was a succession of strong white leaders. In earlier times, before the Europeans arrived...
...commemorated properly, Camus ought to be seen not as a statue but as a man, as flawed as his fellows. His loyalty to France, for example, could blind his foresight. "America," he declared in 1952, "is the land of the atomic bomb." When an American critic, Lionel Abel, countered, "You'll have one here, too, as soon as France can afford it," Camus confidently replied, "Never...
...Powers-Abel Revisited
...general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the Powers-Abel exchange, I have personal knowledge of that episode, which is mentioned in your story on the recent prisoner-swapping triple play...
...Wolfgang Vogel negotiated the exchange of Powers for Abel in 1962. This is inaccurate. The negotiations were begun by James B. Donovan, the lawyer who had defended Abel in court and had kept in touch with him in prison. Constantly keeping in touch with me, he carried on a subtle correspondence with "Mrs. Abel," leading up to a series of meetings in East Berlin with a KGB colonel with whom the terms of the exchange were agreed upon. Vogel came into the picture in connection with two American students who had been held in East Germany and were released...