Word: machel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesia; in fact, the embargo has hurt African states more than it has affected the Smith regime. Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda even had to reopen the border with Rhodesia this month to make possible importation of badly-needed fertilizer for his country's planting season; this incensed president Samora Machel of Mozambique, whose relations with the less radical Kaunda have been slipping anyway. And Tanzanian president Julies Nyerere is too busy fighting off Ugandans to mediate such disputes and coordinate front-line activity against Smith...
...Front-Line States. [Samora] Machel [of Mozambique] and [Kenneth] Kaunda [of Zambia] want to end the Rhodesian problem even more than I do. U.S. and British recognition of the internal settlement would give them the out they are looking for. Kaunda said to me once, "If only the British government would have the guts to face up to its responsibility in settling the issue, while I would make a few unpleasant noises in public for a few days, that evening I would fall down on my knees and thank the good Lord." He wants it resolved desperately, as does Machel...
Meanwhile, at week's end the presidents of three of the front-line states -Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Angola's Agostinho Neto and Mozambique's Samora Machel-convened a meeting in Zambia to talk Kaunda into changing his mind. One of the problems both Zambia and Tanzania will face as a result of Kaunda's decision is that the Tazara railroad will be plunged into financial straits, making it difficult for the two governments to pay back a $450 million Chinese loan used to build the railroad...
...last several months and perhaps a year. Nkomo insisted that the guerrillas should be in charge. Mugabe arrived in Lusaka several days later, was briefed on the Smith meeting by Nigerian officials involved in the negotiations, and then sought the advice of several other African leaders. Both Nyerere and Machel argued that Smith was not really prepared to withdraw in favor of a Patriotic Front-dominated government, and that the price of the Front's cooperation should be a letter of resignation by Smith. It was Nyerere who revealed to the press on Sept. 1 that the secret meeting...
...came when the five front-line Presidents and the Patriotic Front leaders assembled in Lusaka. Kaunda and Angolan President Neto defended Nkomo's action in meeting with Smith, reasoning that any contacts that could end the war and bring the Front to power should be encouraged. Nyerere and Machel accused Nkomo of trying to reach a private agreement with Smith at the expense of Mugabe, and insisted that any negotiation should be conducted through the British government as the legal colonial power in Rhodesia. At one point during the acrimonious nine-hour meeting, Nkomo shouted: "I haven...