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...Lord Carrington wins his gamble, but hazards lie ahead
...brought things to a head a week earlier by presenting a "final" constitutional proposal: it guarantees 20% of the parliamentary seats to Rhodesia's white minority of 212,000, but strips it of its effective control of the military, judiciary and civil service. While avoiding the word ultimatum, Carrington insisted on the accord of both parties...
...that rejected four key features of the British proposal: certain entrenched guarantees for whites; continued citizenship for immigrants who settled in Rhodesia after the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence; pensions for former officials of the Salisbury regime; and compensation for any property seized by a future Zimbabwe government. Carrington promised to study the document, but insisted that his plan was the only possible basis for settlement and gave the guerrillas another 48 hours to accept...
...meantime, the Foreign Secretary visited Blackpool to defend the negotiations before a turbulent Conservative Party conference. Heckled and jeered by pro-Rhodesia right-wingers, Carrington withstood their demands for an immediate lifting of sanctions and pledged not to allow "any party to unilaterally determine the outcome of the London conference." Carrington's speech received a standing ovation and his position prevailed in a conference resolution; it called for an end to sanctions and recognition of the breakaway colony "as soon as practically possible...
Having weathered the storm within his own party, Carrington held firm when Nkomo and Mugabe insisted that they still could not agree on a constitution. He offered no further compromise, beyond the suggestion that Britain and other Western governments, certainly including the U.S., would be willing to help bear the financial burden of compensating dispossessed white landholders...