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...election, which will determine the government of a future Zimbabwe, seemed in danger of disintegrating during the final days. The last full week of campaigning was marred by hundreds of scattered incidents, including the murder of a Roman Catholic priest and the abduction of four campaign workers for Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Party by armed supporters of his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe...
...Nkomo aides also complained of heavy intimidation-from both the Mugabe forces and some 20,000 armed "auxiliaries" loyal to Muzorewa. Nor was Mugabe himself exempt from intimidation: as the election neared, he had all but withdrawn from active campaigning following a grenade attack on his new suburban Salisbury home and a remote-controlled land-mine explosion that just missed...
...Conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia; this surveillance, he contended, was "authorized directly" by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who won wide acclaim for his deft performance as conference chairman. Though all delegations were monitored, Campbell wrote, particular attention was paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; Rhodesian security personnel were even employed to interpret African languages and dialects. Campbell further claimed that U.S. agents had bugged "critical meetings" attended by the Front's delegates to last September's Nonaligned Conference in Havana and passed the information on to Britain...
...Zimbabwe Patriotic Front is a coalition of the Zimbabwe African National Union and the Zimbabwe African People's Union. The two organizations are supporting Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, respectively, in the elections...
Mugabe and Nkomo, leaders of the Zimbabwe liberation movement for more than ten years, "represent the true interests of the majority of the people of Zimbabwe," Matthew Rothschild '80, a member of SASC, said yesterday...