Word: guerrillas
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Salisbury and other Rhodesian cities are still secure. But much of the countryside-particularly in the eastern districts that face Mozambique-is subject to attack from increasingly well-armed guerrillas who terrorize black villages, assault sandbagged and floodlit white farmhouses with rockets and mortars, sabotage the two rail lines to South Africa, and plant mines on paved as well as dirt roads. Traffic moves in armed convoys on many main highways, and it is a rare farmer in Rhodesia today who does not carry in his car an automatic rifle or even a "rhogun," the local adaptation of Israel...
Meanwhile, the government's efforts to achieve a political settlement remain stalemated. Prime Minister Ian Smith is still committed, under the "Kissinger plan," to a transition to African majority rule by September 1978-but largely on his own terms. His plan is to bypass the guerrilla organizations, notably the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, and make a deal with black moderates. To improve the climate of negotiation, he recently pushed through Rhodesia's Parliament a bill to reduce discrimination. Under the new law, racial restrictions in hotels and restaurants are theoretically abolished...
...Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council. So far, Muzorewa (who is currently in Europe, presumably on a fund-raising trip) has refused to negotiate, though he might be willing to do so if he could avoid being branded a traitor by the Patriotic Front. Muzorewa has no guerrilla organization and practically no support from neighboring African states, but he is undeniably popular in Rhodesia and is hailed at rallies in Salisbury's huge Highfield township as "the black Moses." In the event of a broadly based plebiscite, Muzorewa might well win out over other nationalist leaders, including...
Last year Cuban military assistance enabled the Marxist guerrilla faction in Angola to win out in a three-way civil war. Last week it appeared likely that a band of soldiers, with the blessing of the Angolans and the Cubans, was on the brink of a sudden new victory in Zaïre (formerly the Congo). Their apparent aim: the republic's copper-mining region, one of the treasures of Africa...
Cairo Declaration. In the final document, to be known as the Cairo declaration, delegates defined both the Palestinian guerrilla movement and black liberation groups in southern Africa as "joint Afro-Arab causes." They called for total support of both the Arab "front line" states around Israel and the African "front line" states around Rhodesia, called Zimbabwe by blacks...