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...greatest fears were that it might already be too late to find a political solution to Africa's problems, given the momentum of the guerrilla buildup against Rhodesia. Nyerere had warned even before Kissinger's speech that "the war has already begun." Echoing that sentiment, Kaunda urged that Kissinger's program be "worked upon as quickly as possible, because in terms of time we do not have it." In response, Kissinger made it clear that the U.S. would be glad to act as a mediator in negotiations between black liberationists and the Rhodesian government...
...Africa to announce, for the first time, a coherent and far-reaching American policy in the region. In a major policy speech, which he delivered in Lusaka, following a series of friendly talks with Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Kissinger forcefully aligned the U.S. with the proponents of black majority rule and against the white regimes of southern Africa. The U.S., he said, is "wholly committed to help bring about a rapid, just and African solution" in Rhodesia (which Kissinger pointedly referred to by its African name, Zimbabwe...
...southern Africa. As one Kissinger aide said: "It's the first time in a long time that we are doing the moral thing." The reaction in black Africa was cautiously favorable. Tanzania's government-controlled Daily News saw the Lusaka speech as a "psychological boost"; Zambian President Kaunda praised it as "an important turning point...
Last week Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, Black Africa's most moderate spokesman, called on Britain to intervene with military force if necessary, arrest Smith and his "gang of illegitimates" and replace the white government with a British-led multiracial committee including representatives of the guerrilla factions as well as respected Rhodesian whites to prepare for one-man, one-vote elections. There was little hope his plea would be heeded, but his blunt language was a clear measure of widespread African frustration about how to deal with a country that, as TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief...
London dispatched a special emissary to Salisbury-Lord Greenhill, 62, former Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Seretse Khama of Botswana and Samora Machel of Mozambique warned that unless real progress was made "within weeks, not months," they would remove restraints from black Rhodesian guerrillas anxious to use their territories as a base for operations. Even South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, a longtime backer of Smith, urged Salisbury to grant majority rule to Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks (v. 273,000 whites); the alternative, he said, would...