Word: abell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Powers-Abel Revisited
...difficulty began three weeks ago, when the new black co-minister of justice and law-and-order, Lawyer Byron Hove, 38, gave an interview. Hove is a colleague of Bishop Abel Muzorewa's, the most influential black member of the council, who had brought him home from London to serve in the new government. Noting that there were few blacks in the higher ranks of the present police force, let alone in the judiciary, Hove declared: "I don't think there is a single African in the upper echelons of my ministry." The reason, he said, was that...
...public consumption, some members of the Salisbury coalition argue that they can end the guerrilla war without outside help. A spokesman for Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the principal black leader on the Executive Council, ridicules the idea of a round-table conference. He disclosed that the council is working on a new plan-something between an amnesty and a unilateral cease-fire-to induce the guerrillas to lay down their arms. The truth is, however, that one or two embarrassing cracks have already appeared in the two-month-old coalition, and it remains to be seen whether the government will...
...opening for Moscow in Addis Ababa. In Rhodesia, Washington failed to put sufficient pressure on either the Patriotic Front or the Smith regime to achieve a settlement at a time when Smith desperately needed to make a better deal with Nkomo than the one he subsequently offered to Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole...
...historic day that the nation's new executive council met for the first time to begin the process of ending white minority rule. That evening Prime Minister Smith played host to the group at his home, accompanied by his new black colleagues on the council: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Smith called on the U.S. to support his "internal settlement" and rebuked America for what he called its "obsession" with a proposed patriotic front government that would embrace guerrilla factions...