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...civil rights] protest movement. And three years later, I was a Georgia representative." Almost as if he planned to make as many people furious as quickly as possible, Young went on to suggest (without citing any evidence) that supporters of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, rather than black nationalist guerrillas, had massacred Christian missionaries at Elim last month and that France had intervened in the Katangese invasion of Zaire's Shaba province primarily for economic motives...
...death toll rises steadily as the bloody civil war in Rhodesia grinds on, with little hope for an early settlement. Last week black nationalist guerrillas attacked a convoy of 50 vehicles at Kariba, 140 miles north of Salisbury. A bus driver and three young white girls died from bullet wounds; 16 other passengers were wounded. Later, guerrillas attacked and set fire to a tiny village in the Zwimba Tribal Trust Land, killing 17 of its 22 black inhabitants...
Although Begin and Dayan gave the U.S. Vice President a cordial welcome, TIME has learned that other high-ranking officials actually orchestrated several noisy "Mondale go home" demonstrations by members of the religious nationalist Gush Emunim group, which has sponsored a number of West Bank settlements. On one occasion, a police truck was used to transport demonstrators to different spots along the Vice President's route, where the noise from shouting and horn honking frequently drowned out Mondale's conversations with his hosts. Said one high-ranking source about the demonstrators: "The orders to let them through...
...assumptions. One is that continuing Israeli rule over the West Bank and Gaza, with their overwhelmingly Arab populations, would prove impossible in the long run. The second is that substituting an imposed Jordanian and/or Egyptian sovereignty over the area, except during a brief transition period, would equally frustrate Palestinian nationalist yearnings, and thus preclude a genuine Middle East peace. The third is that Israel's security needs could be met without its troops occupying the West Bank and Gaza...
...Elim massacre-the most savage assault on whites in Rhodesia's history -was part of a rising tide of violence that threatens to engulf the breakaway British colony. Only days after Elim, two German Jesuits were killed by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Rupert's Mission, 90 miles west of Salisbury, bringing the black and white civilian death toll to almost 600 so far this year. The guerrillas have also suffered losses-not all of them in raids and counterattacks by the Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders...