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THREE DAYS OF Rhodesian military raids into neighboring Zambia, beginning last Thursday, killed 1700 members of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in 12 guerrilla camps. That's what Salisbury said. Nkomo said the Rhodesians succeeded in killing 350 of his followers, mostly women and non-combatants. The U.S. State Department called the raids "among the heaviest and most destructive of the war, particularly in terms of loss of life." State expressed regret that the raids were carried out while Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his three black cohorts in the current "transitional" government were travelling...
...result, was a session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There he declared that all four members of the executive council are prepared to attend "with no preconditions" an all-parties conference on Rhodesia's future, sponsored by the U.S. and Britain, and including Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. After checking out Smith's statement with his Rhodesian advisers, State Department African experts concluded that the Prime Minister's remarks represented "no change of policy...
...going with preconceived conditions. For example, the Anglo-American plan would liquidate the Rhodesian security forces. This would lead to absolute chaos. Then they want to establish an appointee of the British government as virtual dictator. We wonder why this is necessary. The Americans and British say [Joshua] Nkomo is the man, that you can forget [Robert] Mugabe. Now, I don't say that [British Foreign Secretary David] Owen and Vance specifically say they love Nkomo and they want him appointed. They are going along with the wishes of the Organization of African Unity and the front-line states...
...Patriotic Front. We offered a place to Nkomo on the Executive Council but he turned it down. He wants to come back as the appointed leader of the transitional government. But that is the crux of the matter: he must be elected. If he had any sense, he would have come in at the beginning. But the longer he stays out, the more he loses his internal support...
...would make a few unpleasant noises in public for a few days, that evening I would fall down on my knees and thank the good Lord." He wants it resolved desperately, as does Machel. Kaunda is looking for this opportunity because he is getting to a stage where Nkomo has more men under arms in Zambia than Kaunda does. The same applies to Machel, who is becoming disillusioned with Mugabe...