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...leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrillas who are fighting for black rule in Rhodesia, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, flew separately last week to Addis Ababa. There they helped Ethiopia's Marxist military rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I. More important, from Nkomo's and Mugabe's point of view, they had a chance to confer at length with visiting Cuban President Fidel Castro, one of their principal supporters in the six-year-old war against the Salisbury regime...
...summit ended the next day, with bitter denunciations. When Nyerere announced that the front-line states had agreed not to arrange any further direct contacts with Smith, Nkomo angrily retorted: "Nyerere is not the final authority on what may happen in Zimbabwe. He can't tell us what to do." Under "certain conditions," added Nkomo, he would talk with Smith again...
...such negotiations was seriously compromised by increasing Rhodesian anger over the air-crash massacre. When he and his wife arrived at the Anglican Cathedral in Salisbury to attend a memorial service for the victims, two men in the crowd of whites outside held banners reading: "Prime Minister, give Nkomo a message from us when you meet him secretly next time: 'Go to hell, you murdering bastard...
...angered his Executive Council colleagues, one of whose aides called him a traitor. After such a split, he may find it difficult to count on their future support. One danger, in fact, is that an angry Muzorewa might one day decide to bolt to the Patriotic Front. As for Nkomo and Mugabe, they are more suspicious of each other than ever before. Even their mentors, the leaders of the front-line states, are now divided by a serious dispute...
...more troubling aspects of the latest crisis was the light it threw on Joshua Nkomo. Until now, it had been assumed by many that the pragmatic and ambitious Nkomo was the strongest candidate to lead an independent Zimbabwe -even though, as a member of the minority Matabele tribe, he would lack the wholehearted support of the powerful Mashona peoples, who form about 80% of the country's population. But Nkomo's performance last week, in the aftermath of the crash and the massacre, raised new doubts about his qualifications for national leadership...