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...than war-war." So argued British Foreign Secretary David Owen, quoting the Churchillian maxim at the conclusion of the latest Anglo-American mission to southern Africa. The future of Rhodesia was as uncertain as ever last week as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance completed his quick visit to Dar es Salaam, Pretoria and Salisbury and headed for Moscow. But Vance and his colleagues took comfort in the fact that the negotiating process was still alive. Moreover, the mission may have helped refine the Anglo-American strategy for trying to solve the Rhodesian mess...
When Vance arrived in Africa in an effort to save the Anglo-American plan and broaden the base of the Rhodesian settlement, he was hopeful that both sides would agree to the round-table conference. After two days in Dar es Salaam, however, American negotiators complained that the Patriotic Front leaders were more adamant than ever about the role they want to play in a transition government and unwilling to say publicly that they would attend the round table. African observers insisted that Nkomo and Mugabe had merely adopted a tough negotiating posture and would make concessions later. Vance, however...
Vance was on his way, through turbulent skies, to Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, then to South Africa, then Rhodesia, then London, then Moscow. The twelve-day odyssey will add some 20,000 miles to the 160,000 that the Secretary has logged since he became the nation's chief diplomat 15 months ago?quite a bit of traveling (to 28 countries) for a man who once vowed to stay close to his office. But the problems that the U.S. now confronts in its relations with Africa, and with the Soviet Union, demand every bit of skill, intelligence, dedication...
Tanzania's President Nyerere intrigued the group for two hours in his rambling, high-ceilinged statehouse in Dar es Salaam. He used his ivory-tipped chiefs staff as a stage prop, sometimes rapping it for attention, at other times pointing it at his listeners like a machinegun. Asked if he thought American business should pull out of South Africa or stay and try to help the blacks, he lifted his voice like a preacher: "Out, out, I tell you, leave that blessed land," a view directly opposite that expressed by black leaders in Johannesburg...
Nonetheless, there are signs that the regime is having second thoughts about the pace of its economic strategy. Dar es Salaam has endorsed a World Bank study that, among other things, calls on Tanzania to 1) spend less on social services and more on industrial and farm development, 2) pay peasants more for crops to spur productivity, 3) stop forcing villagers to join the ujamaa work brigades...