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...river-the border between Zambia and Rhodesia. The Rhodesians opened fire, and Canberra and Hawker Hunter jets soon joined the battle. So began Rhodesia's first admitted "external" (i.e., incursion) into Zambian territory-a two-day raid that destroyed an arms cache and a command camp of Joshua Nkomo's 8,000-man guerrilla army. Rhodesia announced that the "self-defense" raid-"It was a beautiful op, smooth as butter," said one officer in Salisbury-killed 38 guerrillas at the cost of one white Rhodesian trooper. Insisting that industrial targets had been hit as well, Zambia announced...
...Smith cited the bloody incident as proof that his announced plan to bring majority rule to Rhodesia by next year would lead to escalation, rather than cessation, of the five-year-old guerrilla war. Smith's "internal settlement," negotiated with three moderate black nationalists, excludes Patriotic Front Leaders Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, who flew to New York last week to address a session of the U.N. Security Council on Rhodesia that had been requested by 49 African nations. "We would do anything to block the Smith settlement here," said Tanzania's U.N. Ambassador Salim A. Salim, "because otherwise...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, the bishop conceded that the "socalled internal settlement" was imperfect, adding that "it was the best we could get, and the important thing is that we now have a basis for the transfer of power." Muzorewa firmly denied the familiar charges by Nkomo and Mugabe that he is, in their words, a puppet of Smith's. Said the bishop: "Nkomo negotiated with Smith for three months in 1976 and nobody called him a puppet. He failed, but we have succeeded. Now Nkomo is jealous." Muzorewa believes that once the joint executive council...
...most popular black leader, Western diplomats who know the bishop agree that he lacks the political savvy to serve effectively as President of Zimbabwe. Chirau is thought to be too closely identified with Smith, while Sithole, although a shrewd tactician, lacks a broad political base. The British believe that Nkomo can still be wooed away from his uneasy alliance with Marxist-inspired Mugabe, and would have the widest spectrum of support as Rhodesia's first post-Smith Prime Minister. Beyond that, there is the question of Smith's credibility. As one U.S. diplomat puts it: "How do Muzorewa...
British Foreign Secretary David Owen still feels that Nkomo and his Patriotic Front faction should somehow be brought into the settlement, and is believed to be working privately toward that end. But Nkomo is showing no interest, at least publicly. From his Zambia headquarters, he denounced the Salisbury agreement as a "sellout." His verdict: the fighting will continue...