Word: nkomo
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...Nkomo publicly called on the kidnapers to free the tourists. Mugabe, meanwhile, sent 1,500 members of the army, aided by helicopters and spotter planes, on a massive bush country search for the hostages: two Americans, two Britons and two Australians...
...able for a time to follow the kidnapers' trail through the bush, but lost the track after local tribesmen drove heir cattle through the area. The government suspects that the villagers were trying to protect the abductors. Indeed, he kidnapers were reportedly hidden overnight by a member of Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), and the government has placed several villagers under arrest. Exclaimed a frustrated government searcher: "We've been within inches of them every blasted night...
...kidnaping, which took place in the heartland of Nkomo's Ndebele tribe, was just one of several recent signs that the uneasy truce among the Ndebeles, Mugabe's majority Shonas and Zimbabwe's white minority is threatening to break apart only 27 months after the transformation of white-dominated Rhodesia into black-dominated Zimbabwe. Mugabe and the rotund Nkomo had helped negotiate the terms of Zimbabwe's independence. In the ensuing election, Nkomo was defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last...
...week, in the most damaging attack yet, saboteurs cut through a barbed-wire fence at Thornhill Air Force Base near Gweru and destroyed or severely damaged 13 aircraft, about 25% of Zimbabwe's combat force. The government has detained six whites and five blacks who were linked to Nkomo for questioning about the incident. Last March, two former officers in Nkomo's Zipra forces-KGB-trained Dumiso Dubengwa, who served as intelligence chief, and ex-Deputy Commander Lookout Masuku-were arrested after Mugabe's men discovered large caches of arms and ammunition on property owned by Nkomo...
...needs to counter the effects of its civil war. The country anticipates gaping budget deficits as it seeks to finance health-care programs and universal education. On a recent fund-raising tour of European governments, Prime Minister Mugabe attempted to convince his hosts that his much publicized split with Nkomo does not jeopardize Zimbabwe's stability. Last week the U.S. signed three agreements worth some $5.5 million in training and food, bringing total U.S. aid to Zimbabwe to $42.7 million in 1982. Even with such aid, a severe drought is expected to reduce the nation's agricultural output...