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...voting for?" Aiming to head off an imposed U.S.-British settlement, Smith called the surprise election in July, hoping that a new mandate would enable him to push through some kind of compromise with either of two "accepted" black leaders: the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole or Bishop Abel Muzorewa...
...O.A.U. supports the Patriotic Front, at the expense of such other Rhodesian nationalists as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Doesn't that increase the chance of civil war among black nationalist factions in Rhodesia...
...Muzorewa and Sithole are talking about electing leaders in Zimbabwe. How? Elections are controlled by Smith. The first thing now is to fight those rebels [the Smith regime]. Once we defeat them, that is the time for elections. The Patriotic Front is not a closed shop at all. Anybody who is prepared to face facts and fight now is welcome, whether he is a bishop or a reverend with a collar, as my father was. But whoever wants an election now is wrong...
...Prime Minister's grand plan-and the platform on which he will fight the election campaign-will be to get what he calls an internal settlement." This means forging a multiracial government that would, he hopes, include at least one relatively moderate black nationalist leader, like Bishop Abel Muzorewa or the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, both of whom are currently inside Rhodesia. By so doing, Smith reasons, he would be conforming to international insistence that his white minority government give way to black majority rule. Smith's goal clearly, is to prevent the "external" Patriotic Front headed by Robert...
...that man out of power and we shall do it." Mugabe said that his guerrillas would fight anybody involved with Smith-regardless of the color of his skin and whether or not he wore a clerical collar. But even the "internal" and moderate black leaders resisted the Smith ploy. Muzorewa said ie was prepared to talk with Smith-but only if the negotiations were based on an immediate transition to black rule Muzorewa added that he did not expect to be taken up on his offer...