Word: muzorewas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Backfiring and coughing out clouds of smoke, a long procession of buses snake-danced through the streets of Salis bury, packed with hundreds of singing, fist-pumping celebrants. They were supporters of Bishop Abel Muzorewa going to the victory rallies for the man who in June is to become the first black Prime Minister of a country that will be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. But that as it happened was about all that could be said with any certainty about the break away British colony's future...
...Carter Administration has tried hard in the past two years to forge new ties with black Africa. What it fears now is a steady enlargement of the Rhodesian guerrilla war, with the U.S. caught in the position of reluctantly supporting the Muzorewa government and with the Soviet Union and Cuba looming ever larger in African eyes as the liberators of the oppressed Rhodesian majority. Some observers are dreaming of unexpected solutions, such as an alliance between Mugabe, himself a Shona, and Muzorewa. But this is probably wishful thinking. As one official of Nkomo's organization says, "This war will...
...fighting in his area, he flees. "If the soldiers come, they might think I am the troublemaker. And if someone doesn't like you, he can go to the guerrillas and tell them something which isn't true and they become your enemy." Though he is a Muzorewa supporter, he was once beaten so badly by black militiamen loyal to the bishop that he had to be hospitalized; the militiamen accused him of not informing on Patriotic Front guerrillas...
With majority-rule government, the Rhodesian struggle will increasingly become one of blacks against blacks. In this new conflict, two fiery opponents will be Abel Muzorewa, almost certain to become Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister, and Nationalist Guerrilla Chief Robert Mugabe, leader of most of the Patriotic Front forces fighting inside the country. In interviews with TIME, Muzorewa and Mugabe spoke of themselves and their land...
...MUZOREWA: "A lot up my sleeve...