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Opponents of Salisbury's former Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa are equally distressed by the activities of his heavily armed "auxiliaries," numbering between 16,000 and 20,000 according to various estimates. Known as Pfumo Re-vanhu (spear of the people), this force was recruited some 18 months ago from among "reformed" guerrillas. In their o ten ruthless efforts to regain rural areas from Patriotic Front control, the auxiliaries have won a reputation as bullies dedicated to furthering Muzorewa's political fortunes by violence and intimidation...
...outcome of the elections. Voting separately, whites will fill 20 seats and blacks 80 seats in the new 100-member House of Assembly. Though no fewer than ten black parties are in the running, the real contest boils down to three men: Nkomo, Mugabe and former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa...
...difficulties, the week-old cease-fire had already accomplished what the white Salisbury government of Ian Smith and the biracial regime of Bishop Abel Muzorewa had spectacularly failed to do: scale down the bloodshed and bring large numbers of guerrillas peacefully out of the bush. Compared with a weekly average of about 200 deaths before the truce took effect, last week's total of twelve was an improvement that boosted the morale of many war-weary Rhodesians. "It's working!" exclaimed a jubilant African shopkeeper near the Mozambique border. "Everybody's happy. I'm even sleeping...
WATCH OUT, BISHOP, THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN, proclaimed one hand-painted poster, in a gibe at the biracial former government's Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will be the Front's main rival in the February elections. The raucous demonstration was both a sign of the guerrillas' broad-based popular support and a reminder of the volatile emotions that still threaten the fragile truce. "Zimbabwe out of the gun," rang an aggressive cheer...
...Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, had entered a gilded room in London's Foreign Office to add their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's increasingly bloody seven-year civil...