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...reality in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, however, is something else again. Over 80 per cent of the country was and still is under martial law. Those escorts were at least as coercive as anything the Patriotic Front did to disrupt the elections. And beyond any coercion, the voting itself was form without content. Blacks did not get to vote on the constitution under which Biship Muzorewa will be taking power--that was drawn up by Ian Smith's regime and passed on by just the whites (5 per cent of the population). That constitution leaves control of the military, judiciary, and police...
...voting went surprisingly smoothly. To counter the threat by the Patriotic Front to disrupt the proceedings, the government mobilized 90,000 troops and in many cases transported voters to the polls. Muzorewa and other campaigners were accompanied by armed militiamen. Mobile voting units were trucked, under army escort, to about 1,500 of the country's 2,000 designated polling places...
...heavies plan to disrupt the digestive processes of Princeton and MIT in the Compton Cup next Saturday on the Charles...
...warned, however, that "the power elite" would try to disrupt the movement "Watch out for infiltration--you start even mild opposition and you are infiltrated right from the beginning," said Wald, who later led the crowd in singing "John Brown's Body...
Zambia and Botswana border Rhodesia on the north and west and harbor guerillas who have recently threatened to disrupt Rhodesian elections scheduled three days from today...