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...through thick and thin" may become a savage reality if the Geneva Conference on Rhodesia remains stalemated-which it has been since it convened at the end of October. All that seems to be keeping the conference alive is a reluctance by Smith and Rhodesia's four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-to bear the blame for torpedoing Rhodesia's last real hope of avoiding a bloody civil...
Meanwhile military pressure mounted on white Rhodesians. There are at least 3,000 nationalist guerrillas now operating inside the country, and isolated farmhouses near the Mozambique border come under attack almost nightly. Snipers so imperil the roadways that many Rhodesian trucks and autos now travel in convoys (see below). According to Salisbury, daring raids by Rhodesian army units into Mozambique earlier this month destroyed six guerrilla staging camps and 70 tons of war matériel. Hundreds of freshly trained insurgents, however, are poised to cross into Rhodesia now that the summer rains have started...
While Smith may hope that the Geneva talks fail, he is gambling that public opinion in the West will rally to him if it appears that he is sincere in seeking a negotiated settlement, while the black nationalist spokesmen are not. Aware of Smith's strategy, some black African leaders have warned the four nationalists in Geneva not to appear intransigent. Last week the Times of Zambia editorially criticized the nationalists for refusing to accept a transition. Warned the paper: "It is better to wait longer if necessary. Insistence shows lack of political acumen and competence...
...territories, and in Israel proper behind the so-called green line. They are not about to disappear and abandon their sense of national identity and their longing for a homeland. They will continue to struggle in order to win the right to self-determination. The main spokesman for this nationalist drive is the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), recognized by nearly every nation in the world as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...Eastern Europe, which acts as arms supplier to Soviet-backed parties in the Middle East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with the P.L.O. and the Eritrean Liberation Front, dissident groups in the Gulf states, SWAPO and other smaller black African nationalist movements, and rebels in Pakistan's Baluchistan. The traffic reaches as far as Thailand and Burma. Its customers are not exclusively radical: some of the biggest and most lucrative orders have come from the embattled whites of Rhodesia...