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...pieds-noirs of Algeria, the Afrikaners have no ties to a European motherland. After more than three centuries in South Africa, they have as much right to claim it as their true home as Canadians have to claim Ontario. That fact was recognized by black African leaders at the Lusaka conference of 1969, which acknowledged that the 4.3 million South African whites (equivalent to the population of Finland) were not colonialists...
Retired Indian General Prem Chand flew from New York City to Lusaka, Zambia, last week as the special representative of United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. His mission: to arrange a U.N. peace-keeping force that would help maintain security in Rhodesia, if and when there is a cease-fire in the five-year-old guerrilla...
During an earlier stop in Lusaka, Zambia, Owen and Young discussed the plan with Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. In Pretoria, they underwent what one observer described as a six-hour "interrogation" by South African Prime Minister John Vorster. The proposal that most troubled Vorster: the disbanding of the Rhodesian army and establishment of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Vorster declared: "The Rhodesian question is a matter for whites and blacks in Rhodesia to solve"-apparently meaning that as far as Vorster is concerned, Smith is free to pursue his own kind of settlement and that South...
...United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen flew into Zambia late last week to begin a selling job on the peace plan. After a meeting in the capital of Lusaka with representatives of the five front-line states (Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana), as well as with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, leaders of the nationalists' Patriotic Front, Young and Owen were scheduled to continue to Pretoria. The proposals will be presented this week to South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster and Smith himself. The plan provides...
While the Lusaka conference was going on, Smith flew to Pretoria for talks with Vorster. The two leaders are likely to focus their objections to the U.S.-British proposal on two aspects: first, the plan would require Smith's resignation, and second, it would mean disbanding some units of the Rhodesian army, including the notorious Selous Scouts, and allowing a U.N. peace-keeping force to come in. Young, for his part, professes optimism that Smith will realize that "Rhodesian whites cannot win" and thus take the peace proposal seriously. At the same time, Young says he discerns among black...