Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor, Muzorewa, is a slight (5 ft.), mild-mannered man who is particularly popular with urban audiences. His garb can be flamboyant; at one campaign appearance he wore black trousers with yellow, red and green stripes and a coat of many colors. He is notoriously thin-skinned in dealing with rivals. Says a former colleague: "Muzorewa is at his best as a preacher and at his worst as a Cardinal." Though a reluctant politician at first, he waged a strenuous campaign, traveling around the country for an average of five or six appearances a day. At these he would hold...
...Guerrilla. He is a "Mugabe man," a contact between the military units of ZANIA and political branches of the nationalist leader's Zimbabwe African National Union inside Rhodesia. He is seriously committed to the long struggle for African liberation, but at times he is simply fascinated by his dizzy world...
...quietly, we act," he says, reciting the creed of the world of small cells, aliases and coded contacts in which he operates as a contact man between political and military units. He is impressed by the heavy arms he now sees coming into the country and by the openness with which freedom fighters walk about, even in the urban townships. He boasts: "There is no doubt that we are winning. The people think we are winning. The army thinks we are winning...
...called in the whole village. Sometimes they would torture somebody in public; they had very long knives at the end of their guns. One day the guerrillas heard that someone had informed on a neighbor 14 years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed along with his wife and first-born child. A chief had his eyes punched out, then he was pulled into his grass hut and burned alive with one of his sons. A businessman readily gave them $400 to $500 at a time, but one day they stopped...
...going to find himself a general without an army. The fighters are overcome by fear. They are not sure of Smith or the elections or their future with Mugabe and Nkomo. After the installation of a new government, we will have some weeks to let them return. If a man doesn't come back, he will be regarded as a straightforward terrorist and will be declared an enemy of the state...