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Overall, the formula seemed acceptable to most Rhodesians, blacks as well as whites. But it angered some Rhodesian black nationalists, as well as the five African "frontline" Presidents (of Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique and Angola) with whom Kissinger had been dealing. The five leaders met in Lusaka, Zambia, and denounced the settlement as outlined by Smith...
Impressive Feat. At week's end, a shadow was cast on the settlement when five black African nations rejected it, saying that acceptance would, in effect, legalize "colonialist and racist structures of power." The presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola and Botswana called instead for Britain to convene a constitutional convention outside of Rhodesia. Still, the U.S. State Department seemed unconcerned, saying that the five nations had apparently accepted "the essentials" of the agreement...
...wife. Burton, who won a quickie Haitian divorce from his two-time wife Elizabeth Taylor in July, and Hunt, recently divorced from British Race Car Driver James ("The Shunt") Hunt, were married in Arlington, Va. Less exotic than his last wedding reception (Burton and Taylor celebrated their remarriage in Botswana last October with two hippos in attendance), the modest guest list in Arlington included Hunt's erstwhile escort Brooke Williams...
...British mediation and last month's collapse of talks between Smith and Joshua Nkomo, the leader of the black African National Council's "internal faction" have brought Rhodesia to the brink of civil war. Moreover, the recent unification of the efforts of the presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana to form a strategy to end white rule in Rhodesia represents a new solidification of black African opposition to the Smith regime. Mozambique's severing of the railroad that formerly carried 80 per cent of Rhodesian exports to the sea has also shortened the probably life of the Smith regime...
...remaining mass of unemployed blacks live under even more marginal conditions, populating an arid area euphemistically described as "African Tribal Lands" comprising 40 per cent of the country. Still, the living standard of even the unemployed is higher than the unemployed in many other parts of Africa, including neighboring Botswana and Mozambique...