Word: abell
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...called internal settlement between blacks and whites, arguing that it "leaves the illegal white minority regime in effective control and gives it a veto over real change for the next decade." As it happens, two of the four leaders of the Rhodesian regime are W.C.C.-related black clergymen, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole, themselves recipients of past grants...
...meeting was a risky undertaking for all concerned. Smith was acting without the consent of his partners on the Executive Council, notably Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who had joined the interim government last March. Nkomo was acting without the support of his colleague, Mugabe. And Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda was hosting the meeting without the express approval of his fellow "frontline" Presidents (Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana), with whom he has been jointly seeking a Rhodesian settlement...
Chief supporter of the plan was Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the most influential of the three blacks on the four-man council. He pressed the council to adopt the new program, which he hailed as "a tremendous breakthrough...
...overdue offer to begin sharing political power with the blacks immediately and to hold free elections, based on universal adult suffrage, by Dec. 31. This proposal was accepted by a number of Rhodesia's most prominent moderate black nationalists, who had long opposed Smith's regime. The popular Bishop Abel Muzorewa, for example, sees Smith's plan as a chance to establish black rule peacefully, although there is mounting evidence that this view is much too optimistic (see WORLD). Smith's plan has been rejected by the leaders of the radical Patriotic Front, guerrillas who have been waging an increasingly...
...internal settlement that Prime Minister Smith worked out last March with three moderate black leaders?Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau?had not been expected to provide an easy transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia. Last week it was clear that Smith's settlement plan had not only faltered, but might be close to failure...