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...parliamentary seats in the independence elections that were held last February, his party had only been included in the government by invitation. Nor was that invitation completely withdrawn last week. Still anxious to mollify the Patriotic Front forces, the Prime Minister appointed a Nkomo stalwart, Josiah Chinamano, to head the Ministry of Transport. The Patriotic Front now holds five portfolios in Mugabe's 26-member Cabinet-not a bad deal for an outvoted minority...
Asked what percentage of the country the Front controls, Chinamano said, "The area in which there is martial law. Ninety per cent." The people in the country accept the idea of the Front, he added...
...Chinamano, who is the right-hand man of ZAPU's president, Joshua Nkomo, said yesterday the country needs complete decolonization, followed by a cease-fire and a meeting between all parties. He said the Front would submit to an internationally supervised election but not "by Smith's friend Hayakawa and (Sen. Jesse) Helms...
...Chinamano said Smith's overture to Nkomo last year taught the Front that they will negotiate only as a united front and will not allow Smith to divide them. Smith's meeting with Nkomo in Zambia last year sparked rumors of a split between Nkomo's ZAPU and Mugabe's ZANU forces...
...Chinamano said the failure of the U.S. to supply the Front with arms has forced the Front to rely exclusively on the Soviet Union's and other socialist countries' assistance. But he added that once in power, the Front intends to be non-aligned and friendly to both the Soviet Union...