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...someone told us what we are voting for?" Aiming to head off an imposed U.S.-British settlement, Smith called the surprise election in July, hoping that a new mandate would enable him to push through some kind of compromise with either of two "accepted" black leaders: the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole or Bishop Abel Muzorewa...
...O.A.U. supports the Patriotic Front, at the expense of such other Rhodesian nationalists as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Doesn't that increase the chance of civil war among black nationalist factions in Rhodesia...
...grand plan-and the platform on which he will fight the election campaign-will be to get what he calls an internal settlement." This means forging a multiracial government that would, he hopes, include at least one relatively moderate black nationalist leader, like Bishop Abel Muzorewa or the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, both of whom are currently inside Rhodesia. By so doing, Smith reasons, he would be conforming to international insistence that his white minority government give way to black majority rule. Smith's goal clearly, is to prevent the "external" Patriotic Front headed by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo...
...closest the summit came to consensus was on how to end white rule in Rhodesia. For years black nationalists have been divided between relative moderates, such as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, and the more extreme forces, which now call themselves the Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. The moderates, while willing to accept a gradual transfer of power, have also been insisting that black Rhodesians be allowed to choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology...
...reached cautious accord with leaders of the five black "frontline" countries surrounding Rhodesia-Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. He had also talked with four black nationalist leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the hard-line Patriotic Front, and the more moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Only Smith, said Richard, had balked completely. "Smith wants to settle on his own terms. That's not settlement by negotiation. That's settlement by ultimatum...