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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was due to be in London for three days this week, primarily to discuss the Rhodesian problem with the new British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington. Both men will be scratching hard for some new ideas. Indeed, one Foreign Office veteran wonders if either Carrington or Vance will say to the other, "Have you thought up any dodge that I haven't thought...
...Salisbury, government officials were greatly heartened by the Senate vote. Ian Smith called it "refreshing and hopeful," and the black Co-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kesiwe Malindi, declared, "I am confident that President Carter, himself a champion of human rights, cannot continue to ignore the welfare of Zimbabweans and the wishes of his own Congress." Some officials in Salisbury are convinced that Washington and London will insist on a high price for recognition and an end to sanctions. Among the possible demands: the complete and final retirement of Smith, who is believed to be angling for the powerful war post...
...China written by Western reporters and scholars, was published in South Korea. Three months later, Mr. Lee Yong-hui, the translator and compiler of the anthology, was arrested by South Korean authorities. Lee was accused of failing to omit from his translation those passages "praising, encouraging and siding with 'foreign communist movements' as he would have been expected to do." Many of the accounts in the anthology had been published in South Korea without the objections of the government. Among the authors translated by Mr. Lee were Harvard China expert Ross Terrill and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith described...
...Koblitz professes a very dangerous election-be-damned attitude. Quite ironically, such implies sanctions forever and a solution imposed from the outside. Having experienced Vietnam, this notion is hardly worthy of modern foreign policy makers. And it is patently false that the "tide is against the present regime"--yes, the tide is against the constitution, but it is with Mr. Muzorewa...
Vance's first meeting, scheduled for today with British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, is expected to be dominated by the dilemma facing both governments over Rhodesia...