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...elections. Voting separately, whites will fill 20 seats and blacks 80 seats in the new 100-member House of Assembly. Though no fewer than ten black parties are in the running, the real contest boils down to three men: Nkomo, Mugabe and former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa...
...difficulties, the week-old cease-fire had already accomplished what the white Salisbury government of Ian Smith and the biracial regime of Bishop Abel Muzorewa had spectacularly failed to do: scale down the bloodshed and bring large numbers of guerrillas peacefully out of the bush. Compared with a weekly average of about 200 deaths before the truce took effect, last week's total of twelve was an improvement that boosted the morale of many war-weary Rhodesians. "It's working!" exclaimed a jubilant African shopkeeper near the Mozambique border. "Everybody's happy. I'm even sleeping...
...signs from the field could not obscure the contentious political issues that will sorely test the cease-fire during the coming electoral campaign. No fewer than eleven African parties have registered for the February poll, and incidents of intimidation were already appearing in the townships: four supporters of Bishop Muzorewa, who will be the Front's mam rival, were ordered jailed for four years each last week for political violence, and eight others were sentenced to fines and suspended prison terms. In another apparent act of pre-election terrorism, the wife of a top Mugabe party official, James Bassapo...
WATCH OUT, BISHOP, THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN, proclaimed one hand-painted poster, in a gibe at the biracial former government's Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will be the Front's main rival in the February elections. The raucous demonstration was both a sign of the guerrillas' broad-based popular support and a reminder of the volatile emotions that still threaten the fragile truce. "Zimbabwe out of the gun," rang an aggressive cheer...
...Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, had entered a gilded room in London's Foreign Office to add their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's increasingly bloody seven-year civil...