Word: muzorewas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, only very specious reasoning would indicate that the Corporation's action and Mr. Calkin's statement conferred "legitimacy upon Ian Smith's 'internal settlement.'" If anything, it is a tacit recognition of the new Muzorewa government, which strikes me as both responsible and morally sensitive. The resolutions were ill-conceived. But the problem goes further: the phrase 'Ian Smith's internal settlement' is misleading and false, and the settlement itself is definitely not farcical...
Thatcher shares a fear widespread among Tories that in pursuing SALT Carter has lost sight of the global Soviet threat. An early test for the Anglo-American alliance may come over Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Many Tories favor recognition of the new biracial government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. It is unlikely, though, that the Thatcher government would move to recognize the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesian regime prior to the August meeting of the Commonwealth Conference in Zambia...
...most severe broadside directed at the electoral process came from the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, Muzorewa's main rival in the election and a colleague of his on the Executive Council that runs the interim government. After the polls closed, Sithole declared the elections a thumping success; within a few hours, he was charging that "gross irregularities" had occurred. Sithole's opponents accused him of being a bad loser, since his party, a branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, got only 14½% of the vote. Later, it was announced that his party had won twelve parliamentary seats...
...Muzorewa's party won 67% of the popular vote and 51 of the 72 seats reserved for blacks in the new 100-member Parliament. On many issues the bish op will have the support of the Rhodesian Front, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Ian Smith, which won all of the 28 seats reserved for whites. Both parties recognize the need for unity against the guer rillas of the Patriotic Front. Says a white restaurant owner in Salisbury, expressing a hope shared by many of Rhodesia's 212,000 remaining "Europeans" "The bishop is a weak...
...first fruits of Mrs. Thatcher's victory may be headaches in Africa for President Carter. Many rank-and-file Tories want her to recognize the new Muzorewa regime in Rhodesia, and both she and her colleagues have in the past been almost scornful of the Anglo-American efforts to woo the Patriotic Front. Dire warnings from British civil servants and others of the disastrous consequences for the British image and trade in Africa may yet dissuade her: the last thing anyone wants is a row at the Commonwealth prime ministers' conference in July, which the Queen is scheduled to attend...