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...achieve a political settlement remain stalemated. Prime Minister Ian Smith is still committed, under the "Kissinger plan," to a transition to African majority rule by September 1978-but largely on his own terms. His plan is to bypass the guerrilla organizations, notably the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, and make a deal with black moderates. To improve the climate of negotiation, he recently pushed through Rhodesia's Parliament a bill to reduce discrimination. Under the new law, racial restrictions in hotels and restaurants are theoretically abolished, and the country's 6.2 million blacks...
...practically no support from neighboring African states, but he is undeniably popular in Rhodesia and is hailed at rallies in Salisbury's huge Highfield township as "the black Moses." In the event of a broadly based plebiscite, Muzorewa might well win out over other nationalist leaders, including Nkomo and Mugabe. The problem is that his election would not bring an end to the guerrilla war; in fact, it might very well intensify the fighting...
...also, in many respects, a baffling one. The most prominent guerrilla group, the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, denied responsibility, though most white Rhodesians felt the Front-or some segment of it-was implicated. Blaming guerrillas whom he did not identify, the black Archbishop of Salisbury, the Most Rev. Patrick Chakaipa, called the mass murder "an evil act that makes a mockery of the ideals these people profess to serve." In Rhodesia, as in South Africa, the Catholics have often opposed the ruling white regime but nonetheless have been caught in the crossfire. Only two months...
...Nkomo and RoberMugabe, leaders of the Patriotic Front, refuse to negotiate further with Smith's regime. Mugabe has said repeatedly that the Front will not compensate whites who lose their property in a free Zimbabwe, and Rhodesian businessmen view the Front as a much greater threat than simply giving blacks the vote. There appears to be no common ground for negotiations. The situation is beginning to look like the one that developed in Angola just before and after the Portuguese left: one group of blacks promising a moderate government supported by the western capitalist world, pitted against another, much more...
Richard called Smith's decision "tragic and fateful." The Briton had reached cautious accord with leaders of the five black "frontline" countries surrounding Rhodesia-Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. He had also talked with four black nationalist leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the hard-line Patriotic Front, and the more moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Only Smith, said Richard, had balked completely. "Smith wants to settle on his own terms. That's not settlement by negotiation. That's settlement by ultimatum...