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That gloomy prospect was clearly in the minds of two roving envoys who landed in Salisbury the morning after the ballots were counted: Britain's Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owen, and Washington's Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young. Their mission was to present Smith with a new Anglo-American proposal for a Rhodesian settlement-and from the beginning they had little hope that he would heed...
During an earlier stop in Lusaka, Zambia, Owen and Young discussed the plan with Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. In Pretoria, they underwent what one observer described as a six-hour "interrogation" by South African Prime Minister John Vorster. The proposal that most troubled Vorster: the disbanding of the Rhodesian army and establishment of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Vorster declared: "The Rhodesian question is a matter for whites and blacks in Rhodesia to solve"-apparently meaning that as far as Vorster is concerned, Smith is free to pursue his own kind of settlement and that South...
...Salisbury, the talks lasted four hours, with Smith questioning Owen and Young closely on the security provisions. Afterward, Smith told reporters ambiguously, "There were some pleasant and some unpleasant surprises." He also noted that the plan contained some "crazy suggestions," but did not reject it out of hand. Leaving Salisbury, Owen admitted that he was "not full of optimism...
...this, however, presupposes that Smith will go along with the new proposals-and so far there is no indication that he will do so. One Whitehall official described the conclusion of the Owen-Young mission as "the end of a chapter, not the close of the book." Perhaps so. But to judge by the evidence last week, the close of the book on Rhodesia is likely to be both prolonged and bloody...
...United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen flew into Zambia late last week to begin a selling job on the peace plan. After a meeting in the capital of Lusaka with representatives of the five front-line states (Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana), as well as with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, leaders of the nationalists' Patriotic Front, Young and Owen were scheduled to continue to Pretoria. The proposals will be presented this week to South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster and Smith himself. The plan provides...