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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Seeds of Political Destruction | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Western approach to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who conceived the Namibian strategy early last year. McHenry has been shuttling between New York and seven African capitals for the past 15 months in an effort to persuade leaders of the so-called Front Line States (Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Botswana) to talk SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma into buying the plan. Angolan officials were particularly anxious for a resolution of the conflict. Their southern border area is scattered with Namibian refugee camps and SWAPO guerrilla bases; last May South Africa peppered the area with a series of bombing attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: Diplomacy Wins | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Seretse M. Khama, president of Botswana--Doctor of Laws...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Solzhenitsyn, Giamatti, Nine Others Receive Honoraries at Commencement | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Khama, who has served as Botswana's president since the country gained independence from Britain in 1966, has earned a reputation as a staunch foe of the apartheid policies of South Africa. Although continuing trade relations with that nation, Botswana has, under Khama's leadership, established itself as one of the foremost opponents of apartheid, frequently sponsoring and supporting United Nations resolutions condemning South Africa and its racial policies...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Solzhenitsyn, Giamatti, Nine Others Receive Honoraries at Commencement | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Khama came to prominence, before Botswana's independence, as leader of the Bechuanaland Democratic Party, and was later the nation's first prime minister and minister of home affairs. Since independence, he has sat as a member of the British House of Lords...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Solzhenitsyn, Giamatti, Nine Others Receive Honoraries at Commencement | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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