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Considering the size and scope of the operation, there was little evidence of any major gains. Even the cache of weapons displayed from the operation turned out to be unconvincing. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, who landed at the dusty airstrip at Chiredzi in southeastern Rhodesia, reports: "Spread out on two canvas aprons on the brown grass were two small heaps that looked like the remains from a weapons picnic or the last leftovers from some outdoor arms fair. There were a couple of rocket launchers, several assault rifles and ancient carbines, some mortars with rounds. The sad little arrangements were...
...servant and an eight-year-old child were murdered by terrorists who fled across the border into Botswana. Such incidents are taking their toll on the daily lives of the country's whites. During a 1,200-mile tour of Rhodesia, TIME'S Johannesburg bureau chief William McWhirter stopped at missions and family farms, many of them along the guerrilla-infested border with Mozambique. He found that while many whites still believe they can hold their own in the war, it has become a futile effort, delaying and making more difficult the possibility of a settlement with...
...accepting the Owen plan, Smith again publicly committed his government to cooperation in the transition. Privately, however, in an interview last week with TIME Managing Editor Henry A. Grunwald and Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, he maintained a wary and often pessimistic view of the process. Excerpts...
...most distinguished victims, including the former Chief Justice; from time to time, the story goes, Amin walks over to the freezer to lecture his frozen audience about the evils of their ways. A former Amin aide who escaped to Kenya last year described Ugandan life to TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week: "You are walking, and any creature making a step on the dry grass behind you might be an Amin man. Whenever you hear a car speeding down the street, you think it might suddenly come to a stop-for you. I finally fled, not because...
...damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt with government aid, told McWhirter: "There was enough left over from the compensation to build the big Buddha image at the temple. Officials seem more polite. This village is ready to be progovernment." Heavily guarded government teams are also hacking out roads through the forested valleys of the northeast to bring goods from remote villages...