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...been little progress toward a Rhodesian settlement since last fall, when Kissinger's whirlwind mission established the fragile basis for talks in Geneva between Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-dominated regime and four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole (TIME, Nov. 15). For seven frustrating weeks Richard, as chairman of the conference, tried to coax the participants beyond acrimonious haggling. With almost nothing accomplished, the talks recessed for the holidays...
...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...
...guerrillas, was tempered as he expressed "preparedness to pursue the method of peaceful negotiations." He quickly cautioned, though, that if the current talks failed there would be no choice but to continue "war in the pursuit of peace." The most conciliatory of the four blacks, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, credited the Rhodesians for having the good sense to accept the "new political reality" and the principle of majority rule...
Mugabe was once a deputy to Joshua Nkomo, but in 1963 he broke with Nkomo and ZAPU to help found the rival and more extreme Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), under the leadership of the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole...
...employed almost as routine practice by both police and security forces." The methods include beatings, electric shock by electrodes and cattle prods, suspension in barrels of water, threats of castration. Preventive detention of black activists has long been commonplace (three leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-together spent 30 years in jail). At least 700 political prisoners have been held for ten years or longer, said Amnesty...