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...table. He may also have been attempting to convince black moderates inside Rhodesia that his armed forces would be able to defend a transition government from attacks by radicals outside the country. Another possibility is that the Mozambique raids were aimed at widening a rift between Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, who as head of ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) is co-leader of the so-called Patriotic Front. By devastating Mugabe's guerrillas-but leaving Nkomo's Zambia-based guerrilla forces untouched-Smith may have been trying to tempt Nkomo into joining Muzorewa and Sithole...
What Smith is seeking is an "internal settlement"-a deal between whites and moderate blacks that pointedly excludes the Patriotic Front of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, which for five years has been waging guerrilla war against the Smith regime from its bases in Mozambique and Zambia. Smith's latest announcement apparently means that he has made some kind of deal with the leading black moderates, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Both had previously insisted that there could be no negotiations until Smith accepted one-man, one-vote rule. Although he may, of course, attach...
...believe that any settlement, if it is to succeed, must include participation by the groups that have been doing the fighting. As one U.S. official put it, Smith's attempt to bar the Patriotic Front "is like holding elections in South Viet Nam without the Viet Cong." Declared Nkomo angrily from his base in Zambia: "As far as we are concerned, the war continues...
...security forces. Rhodesia's whites generally accept majority rule as inevitable, but they oppose dismantling the white-led military and police. The cease-fire plan, however, calls for a merger of Walls' forces with guerrillas who owe allegiance to Black Nationalists Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. Thus prospects for an early peace in Rhodesia depend heavily on negotiations about security that involve three widely respected but relatively unknown soldiers. Brief profiles of the three...
...make matters worse, there have been reports of clashes south of Belingwe between the separate (though theoretically allied) guerrilla armies-one associated with Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the other affiliated with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). To the west of Belingwe, ZANU is said to have warned a ZAPU group not to encroach. There are many arms caches in the Tribal Trust Land-perhaps in store for a day of reckoning between the two factions...