Word: muzorewas
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Night Terror. Smith remains publicly confident, while privately he is negotiating with Bishop Abel Muzorewa, moderate chairman of the African National Council, Rhodesia's largest recognized black political organization. Smith acknowledges that majority rule must come to Rhodesia, but his timetable is nothing like Muzorewa's. The bishop is reportedly willing to wait ten years or so. Smith wants blacks to hold off another 60 to 75 years. The bishop has warned that unless the regime negotiates with him in better faith, Smith may eventually be forced to talk terms with the infinitely more intransigent ZANU instead. That...
Guerrilla Fighters. The alternative to the guerrillas seems to lie in the African National Council, a moderate group headed by a bespectacled Methodist churchman, Bishop Abel Muzorewa. "We are not pressing for majority rule right away," says Muzorewa. "Majority rule after a reasonable time is perfectly acceptable." Muzorewa's "reasonable time" does not stretch, however, to 2033, the date cited by whites as the earliest possibility for black majority rule. "Everything depends on the good will of the present regime," Muzorewa adds, "but, sadly, good will is not now apparent." Indeed, the regime has not only broken off talks...
...black majority was greatly pleased by the commission's findings. Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of the newly formed African National Council, called the report a "God-given chance" for Rhodesia's blacks and whites "to reason together and try to solve their problems." Smith was not having any of that kind of reasoning. "They are a bunch of unscrupulous politicians," he said of the council leaders, "who have hoodwinked the poor African." In the absence of a settlement, the British government will maintain its diplomatic and economic boycott of Rhodesia. "The status quo," said Foreign Secretary...
...genies back into the box, have no fear about that," boasts Rhodesian Information Minister P.K. Van Der Byl. The blacks, however, will not soon forget what they have learned in the past six weeks. "It may take six years, it may take ten," says Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the council's principal leader, "but we will not stop until we have reached our goal-freedom...