Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THREE DAYS OF Rhodesian military raids into neighboring Zambia, beginning last Thursday, killed 1700 members of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in 12 guerrilla camps. That's what Salisbury said. Nkomo said the Rhodesians succeeded in killing 350 of his followers, mostly women and non-combatants. The U.S. State Department called the raids "among the heaviest and most destructive of the war, particularly in terms of loss of life." State expressed regret that the raids were carried out while Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his three black cohorts in the current "transitional" government were travelling...
...result, was a session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There he declared that all four members of the executive council are prepared to attend "with no preconditions" an all-parties conference on Rhodesia's future, sponsored by the U.S. and Britain, and including Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. After checking out Smith's statement with his Rhodesian advisers, State Department African experts concluded that the Prime Minister's remarks represented "no change of policy...
...opposed to going with preconceived conditions. For example, the Anglo-American plan would liquidate the Rhodesian security forces. This would lead to absolute chaos. Then they want to establish an appointee of the British government as virtual dictator. We wonder why this is necessary. The Americans and British say [Joshua] Nkomo is the man, that you can forget [Robert] Mugabe. Now, I don't say that [British Foreign Secretary David] Owen and Vance specifically say they love Nkomo and they want him appointed. They are going along with the wishes of the Organization of African Unity and the front...
Smith had been invited by 27 Senators, led by conservative California Republican S.I. Hayakawa, who felt that he should have an opportunity to present his case to the U.S. public. The State Department had previously granted visas to Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. Nonetheless, State hesitated to give Smith an entry permit, on the ground that the U.S., which has honored the U.N. sanctions, considers his government illegal and has no diplomatic relations with it. After the delay raised editorial eyebrows and congressional hackles, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ordered that Smith be given a visa...
Signs of that life began in Poland, where the son and grandson of rabbis was afflicted by skepticism. "I began to doubt," he recalls, "not the power of God, but all the traditions and dogmas." Deterred from a religious vocation, Isaac followed his equally radical brother Israel Joshua to the journals of Warsaw. In his spare time, the young reporter wrote a handful of stories and a dark novel about a false messiah, Satan in Goray, that prefigured his later works...