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...plain fact is that the internal settlement, which was ratified three months ago by former Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is not working, and for the reason widely forecast: it left the Patriotic Front guerrillas on the outside looking in. Says an adviser to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the most popular of the black politicians in the interim government: "The root cause of the problem today is that the country has no leader. For 13 years the whites had Smith, and before that there was a succession of strong white leaders. In earlier times, before the Europeans arrived...
...difficulty began three weeks ago, when the new black co-minister of justice and law-and-order, Lawyer Byron Hove, 38, gave an interview. Hove is a colleague of Bishop Abel Muzorewa's, the most influential black member of the council, who had brought him home from London to serve in the new government. Noting that there were few blacks in the higher ranks of the present police force, let alone in the judiciary, Hove declared: "I don't think there is a single African in the upper echelons of my ministry." The reason, he said, was that...
That set off an uproar among blacks, particularly in Muzorewa's party. The bishop, evidently surprised at the depth of the black response, claimed that he had not been present when the council voted to oust Hove. The dismayed Hove flew back to London, and the Patriotic Front's co-leader, Joshua Nkomo, announced from his base in Zambia: "The council members only have powers to sack each other." They will soon realize, he said, "that they have been taken for a ride...
...public consumption, some members of the Salisbury coalition argue that they can end the guerrilla war without outside help. A spokesman for Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the principal black leader on the Executive Council, ridicules the idea of a round-table conference. He disclosed that the council is working on a new plan-something between an amnesty and a unilateral cease-fire-to induce the guerrillas to lay down their arms. The truth is, however, that one or two embarrassing cracks have already appeared in the two-month-old coalition, and it remains to be seen whether the government will...
...Moscow in Addis Ababa. In Rhodesia, Washington failed to put sufficient pressure on either the Patriotic Front or the Smith regime to achieve a settlement at a time when Smith desperately needed to make a better deal with Nkomo than the one he subsequently offered to Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole...