Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule. It will include a council of state headed by a white, possibly Smith himself, and a council of ministers to be led by a black "First Minister." In return for accepting the plan, the Rhodesian whites were promised that steps would be taken to end both the black guerrilla fighting along Rhodesia's borders and the international economic sanctions imposed upon the country following its breakaway from Britain. The U.S. and other countries would also establish a fund to insure whites against financial losses as a result of the shift to majority rule...
...proposed last March by British Prime Minister Callaghan still had to be worked out. But he remained firm on the plan's basic tenets: acceptance of majority rule within 18 to 24 months, and formation of an interim government which, in order to bring an end to further guerrilla warfare, would have to meet with the approval of the black majority...
...mandate that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Some important details on Namibia remained unsettled, but Kissinger still hopes to find a way to bring the South West African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO), a leading political movement, into the territory's constitutional conference, thereby ending SWAPO's guerrilla activity before Namibia becomes independent...
Cessation of guerrilla activity. Given Smith's past record as a negotiator, the black leaders are undoubtedly reluctant to end guerrilla war and international economic sanctions before the installation of an acceptable majority rule government. Otherwise there will be no effective pressures to force Smith to comply with the agreement. The anti-guerrilla provisions of the agreement also imply that those forces which desire radical social change within Rhodesia itself--and which are largely responsible for making these negotiations necessary--are essentially to be shut out of the political process. This will of course be unacceptable to the guerrillas themselves...
...quite different sort of agreement, and the front-line African presidents are right to have rejected this one. They do not appear, however, to have rejected the principle of negotiation with American involvement. This is also politically intelligent--Black Africans have nothing to gain from a bloody and protracted guerrilla war nor from the dependence on Soviet aid such a war would require...