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...Nkomo at the airport rather than Government House-a move aimed at underscoring the "illegality" of Nkomo's party-Wilson snapped that he would see Nkomo and everyone else only at Government House...
Smith was in control throughout the tour, permitted his guest from London only a fleeting glimpse of black nationalist spokesmen who oppose white rule. He was allowed three hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have...
Tear Gas & Truncheons. Smith's first act as Prime Minister last week was to arrest African Leader Joshua Nkomo and three officials of his People's Caretaker Council, whom the government accused of "dragging the country from crisis to crisis." The arrest triggered riots that brought white cops with tear gas, dogs and swinging truncheons into Salisbury's Highfield African Township. Before the week was out, more than 250 Africans had been arrested...
...Butler's answer last week was that the conference settling the details of the dissolution of the federation must be held first, which makes the situation-like so many in Africa-appear insoluble. Fleeing a police rap, Southern Rhodesia's Black Nationalist Joshua Nkomo showed up in Tanganyika to declare his determination to fight the whole idea of Southern Rhodesia independence under white rule. Viewing the deadlock, Britain's Spectator commented: "What now exists in South ern Rhodesia is a colonial situation in reverse," that is, the Africans themselves earnestly hope Britain will retain what power...
Field wants no squawks from native agitators while he tries to bring off his plan. This month his police arrested African Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo and seven other former leaders of the banned Zimbabwe African People's Union for taking part in an "illegal procession" and "obstructing police" at a protest rally, charges that could mean up to ten years in prison. With that. Field last week sent Parliament a spate of proposals that would give police broad new search and arrest powers, permit the whipping of prisoners (up to a maximum of ten lashes), and make hanging mandatory...