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...trouble with Smith's plan is that black Africa will not buy it. Across the Zambezi River in Lusaka, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood talked with two of the black leaders most concerned with achieving a Rhodesian settlement: Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's most respected leaders, and Joshua Nkomo, perhaps the best known of the Rhodesian nationalists and co-leader (with Robert Mugabe) of the Patriotic Front...
...antiaircraft battery was suddenly rolled into place on a golf course near Lusaka International Airport last week. Zambian armed forces went on alert, leaves were canceled, and President Kenneth Kaunda issued orders to "shoot on sight" any Rhodesian aircraft that violated his country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls...
...diplomatic act that some journalists in Africa call "the Traveling Ted and Bill Show" hopscotched around the continent last week-from Maputo to Dar es Salaam, Lusaka to Pretoria, Salisbury to Pretoria again, and on to London. Through it all, Britain's Minister of State for Africa Edward Rowlands and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs William Schaufele wore smiles that occasionally seemed frozen on their faces. "I think we have a measure of agreement," chirped Rowlands. Added Schaufele: "We are clear of all difficulties, and now the end should be achieved." Sure enough, at week...
Overall, the formula seemed acceptable to most Rhodesians, blacks as well as whites. But it angered some Rhodesian black nationalists, as well as the five African "frontline" Presidents (of Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique and Angola) with whom Kissinger had been dealing. The five leaders met in Lusaka, Zambia, and denounced the settlement as outlined by Smith...
Perhaps the greatest risk involved in the Lusaka statement was that it might give Smith a chance to back out of his agreement. Twice before ? in talks with Harold Wilson aboard the Royal Navy ships H.M.S. Tiger in 1966 and H.M.S. Fearless in 1968 ? Smith had seemingly agreed to end Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). But then he returned to Salisbury "to consult my colleagues," and changed his mind. He actually initialed an agreement for ultimate majority rule in 1971, but a British commission went to Rhodesia in early 1972 and decided that the proposal...