Word: nkomo
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...persuading thousands of seasoned fighters to relinquish their arms. The first ambitious efforts to integrate the rival armies have had mixed results; some training camps have reported persistent tensions and disciplinary problems among the guerrillas. Another potential threat to future stability: about 5,500 guerrillas loyal to Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe's partner in the former Patriotic Front, refuse to return from their bases in Zambia, largely because of suspicions arising from their leader's marginal role in the new government...
...conservative, he declared that "the primary function of any government is to ensure the permanence of peace through the maintenance of law and order." The strikes kindled deep resentment among Mugabe's followers, some of whom charged that they had been politically inspired by labor organizers loyal to Nkomo...
Mugabe also completed his fence mending with Joshua Nkomo, his former partner and rival in the uneasy Patriotic Front alliance and leader of a powerful guerrilla army. Nkomo's regionally based party won only 20 parliamentary seats, against Mugabe's 57. Though he immediately agreed to join forces with Mugabe in a coalition government, Nkomo turned down an offer of the figurehead presidency.* "I didn't think I was ready to neutralize my life," he explained to TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. When Mugabe decided to retain the strategic Defense portfolio for himself, Nkomo demanded control...
...request that Lieut. General Peter Walls, 53, stay on as Zimbabwe Rhodesia's Senior Military Commander. The crusty Sandhurst graduate, who has spent much of the past seven years fighting the guerrillas, agreed to preside over the crucial task of integrating the armies of Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo into the regular Rhodesian security forces. Last week General Walls outlined his commitment to this assignment in an interview with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Excerpts...
...success of efforts to integrate the guerrillas and the white-led Rhodesian military forces into a single army. The guerrillas have already begun intensive training programs with Rhodesian and British instructors. The initial results were encouraging. At Papa Base, the largest of the cease-fire assembly points for Nkomo's forces, Commander Todd Msipa told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter: "If our orders are to work with the Rhodesians, we can do it, just like we killed under orders." The instructors, for their part, have been generally enthusiastic over the military potential of the new recruits. At Rathgar...