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...pervasive mood of sweet reason. Even the militant Mugabe confessed that he was "cautiously optimistic" about the possibility of a settlement and graciously took Muzorewa off his personal list of "war criminals." His conciliatory tone was shared by fellow Guerrilla Leader Nkomo, who told TIME'S William McWhirter, "I would like everybody to be given a chance to contribute to a rea-soned-out solution of the problem. It is not the conference that has changed things. It's the circumstances that have changed...
...Rhodesian attacks were not bad enough, Botswana is also vulnerable to raids by South African security forces against any South African guerrillas who might be passing through Botswanan territory. Summing up this welter of problems, a ranking Botswanan official told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter: "Our future depends on whether sanity prevails in the region. If it doesn't, we may soon be in a position where all the parties say, 'He who is not with us is against...
Conceivably, as Smith himself implied last week, some of the special protective clauses for whites may be dropped from the constitution after the new government takes hold. "Whether we like it or not," he told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, "minority governments are unacceptable to the rest of the world. I had always hoped we could avoid black majority rule in my lifetime. But you have to change your tactics in this game, and we came to the conclusion that if we didn't change, we couldn't survive...
...double the casualty rate of a year ago when the "internal settlement" agreement was signed. Caught between the government forces, the guerrillas and the militias loyal to the internal leaders, most blacks have been too fearful of recrimination to talk about their anguish openly. But TIME'S William McWhirter persuaded a cross section of blacks to speak about their plight...
...Shah reviled and Ayatullah Khomeini revered? One reason is that millions of Iranian poor were untouched by the new wealth of the monarch's industrializing society; meanwhile, many remember the role traditionally played by the Shi'ite mullahs as protectors of the oppressed. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter talked with one peasant family, uprooted from the Ayatullah's birthplace of Khomein (pop. 12,000) in central Iran. His report...